The Following Palm

The Following Palm appears in 8 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.

What the data can answer

The Following Palm appears in 8 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.

8
catalogued products
#17,814
usage rank of 247,206
3
named brands represented
20%
average depth down ingredient lists

Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.

The Following Palm: top-decile catalog footprint (#17,814 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#17,814
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
20%
Mean relative depth 20% across 8 parsed labels, slot 3.9 on average. The Following Palm tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: The Following Palm spans 3 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Crackers; Creamy original coffee creamer; Deliciously Smooth Salted Caramel Coffee Creamer when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

3 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 8 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.

Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 8 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.

Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing The Following Palm

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 8 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing The Following Palm CrackersCreamy original coffee creamerDeliciously Smooth Salted Caramel Coffee CreamerClassic hazelnut flavored coffee creamer, classic hazelnutCreamy original coffee creamer, creamy originalDeliciously smooth french vanilla coffee creamer, french vanillaDeliciously Smooth Vanilla Caramel Coffee CreamerSugar free deliciously smooth french vanilla coffee creamer, french vanilla
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

The Following Palm sits among other busy catalog rows (8 products, mean score 96.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this The Following Palm record

Use the 8-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list The Following Palm to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
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  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on The Following Palm?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to The Following Palm, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#17,814 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with The Following Palm?

The Following Palm ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is The Following Palm so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet The Following Palm appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (The Following Palm). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.