White Beeswax

White Beeswax appears in 67 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

White Beeswax appears in 67 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.

67
catalogued products
#4,097
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
72%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

82.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify White Beeswax as the trigger. Open records such as Berries; Fantastic Mix; Frogs and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 52.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 72% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

82.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 67 of 67 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

White Beeswax sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,097 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#4,097
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 33 others that also appear in exactly 67 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
72%
Averaged label depth puts White Beeswax in the lower half of the list (72% of list length, mean slot 10.8). 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.

What else is usually in the same product as White Beeswax

Across the 67 products on this site that list White Beeswax, 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. Red 40 shows up about 13.3x more often with White Beeswax than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +66.2ppRed 40+66.2ppYellow 5: +62.4ppYellow 5+62.4ppBlue 1: +42.1ppBlue 1+42.1ppCaramel Coloring: +16.7ppCaramel Coloring+16.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, White Beeswax products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Red 40
66.2pp
Yellow 5
62.4pp
Blue 1
42.1pp
Caramel Coloring
16.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of White Beeswax products Share of all products
Red 40 48 71.6% 5.4%
Yellow 5 45 67.2% 4.8%
Blue 1 31 46.3% 4.2%
Caramel Coloring 15 22.4% 5.7%

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.

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 White Beeswax

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 16 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 020406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing White Beeswax
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.

White Beeswax vs other top-decile catalog footprints

White Beeswax sits among other busy catalog rows (67 products, mean score 52.2/100). Nearest count peers include “Acesulfame”, “Added To Promote Color Retention”, “Brandy”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

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 White Beeswax page

Start from White Beeswax's 67 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing White Beeswax before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

White Beeswax — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when White Beeswax sits in heavily flagged products?

82.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming White Beeswax is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with White Beeswax?

White Beeswax ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,097 of 247,206), appearing in 67 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is White Beeswax so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Beeswax appears in 67 products (#4,097 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Beeswax). 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.