Vegetable Magnesium Stearate
Vegetable Magnesium Stearate appears in 95 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
Vegetable Magnesium Stearate appears in 95 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.
- 95
- catalogued products
- #3,238
- usage rank of 247,206
- 35
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Vegetable Magnesium Stearate - usage rank #3,238
- Usage rank
- #3,238
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 25 others that also appear in exactly 95 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Magnesium Stearate near the end of the captured list (79% of list length, mean slot 8.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Magnesium Stearate spans 35 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Acidophilus prebiotic; Amazing Ashwa; Apple Cider Vinegar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
35 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 84 of 86 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 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 Vegetable Magnesium Stearate
Products Containing Vegetable Magnesium Stearate
High-volume slice (16 of 95) for products naming Vegetable Magnesium Stearate:
Vegetable Magnesium Stearate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Vegetable Magnesium Stearate: 95 listings averaging 98.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Apples And Calcium Ascorbate; Barbecue Sauce; Black Bean.
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.
Next steps from the Vegetable Magnesium Stearate page
Start from Vegetable Magnesium Stearate's 95 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Magnesium Stearate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Vegetable Magnesium Stearate
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Magnesium Stearate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Magnesium Stearate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,238 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Magnesium Stearate? ▼
Vegetable Magnesium Stearate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,238 of 247,206), appearing in 95 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Magnesium Stearate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Magnesium Stearate appears in 95 products (#3,238 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Magnesium Stearate). 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.