Vegetable Stearic Acid
Vegetable Stearic Acid appears in 40 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 Stearic Acid appears in 40 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.
- 40
- catalogued products
- #5,797
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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 Stearic Acid - usage rank #5,797
- Usage rank
- #5,797
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 40 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Stearic Acid in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 7.7). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Stearic Acid spans 13 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Acidophilus prebiotic; Advanced Amino Formula; Advanced Amino Formula when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
13 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 38 of 38 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 Stearic Acid
Products Containing Vegetable Stearic Acid
High-volume slice (16 of 40) for products naming Vegetable Stearic Acid:
High-volume peers for Vegetable Stearic Acid
High-volume peers for Vegetable Stearic Acid: 40 products, mean screening score 98.9/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Stearic Acid page
40 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vegetable Stearic Acid are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vegetable Stearic Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Vegetable Stearic Acid
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Stearic Acid? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Stearic Acid, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,797 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Stearic Acid? ▼
Vegetable Stearic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 40 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Stearic Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Stearic Acid appears in 40 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Stearic Acid). 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.