Tocopherols
Tocopherols carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,350 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Tocopherols appears in 2,350 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 2,350
- catalogued products
- #363
- usage rank of 247,206
- 516
- named brands represented
- 76%
- 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.
Tocopherols: top-decile catalog footprint (#363 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #363
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 76%
- Averaged label depth puts Tocopherols near the end of the captured list (76% of list length, mean slot 23.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 809 of 2350 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1,000mg Vitamin C Pink Lemonade; 100% Whey Protein; 100% Whey Protein to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Tocopherols itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
809 of 2,350 linked records have some flagged component
All 2319 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Tocopherols
Across the 2,350 products on this site that list Tocopherols, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.6x more often with Tocopherols than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tocopherols products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 215 | 9.1% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 182 | 7.7% | 5.4% |
| Sucralose | 175 | 7.4% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 174 | 7.4% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 158 | 6.7% | 4.8% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
Function
ANTIOXIDANT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 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 Tocopherols
Products Containing Tocopherols
High-volume slice (16 of 2,350) for products naming Tocopherols:
High-volume peers for Tocopherols beside “Sodium Lactate”
High-volume peers for Tocopherols: 2,350 products, mean screening score 88.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Sodium Lactate; Potato Flour; Granulated Garlic. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Tocopherols evidence
Use the 2,350-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Tocopherols and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Tocopherols next to “Potato Flour” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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
Does Tocopherols carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Tocopherols itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tocopherols? ▼
Tocopherols ranks in the top decile by product count (#363 of 247,206), appearing in 2,350 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Tocopherols do in food? ▼
Tocopherols is recorded as a antioxidant, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tocopherols). 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.