Posted on April 16, 2015 by The VRG Blog Editor

The VRG needs your help!

Have you spotted calcium stearate on a food label recently? Please let us know!

Send us a web link to the ingredients label or a photo. Or at least, lead us to it with the complete name of the food product including brand. No vitamins or pharmaceuticals, please…just food.

At one time, calcium stearate was often derived from cow or hog fat, but we think this is no longer true. We’re not even sure this once-popular anti-caking agent and emulsifier is really even used much at all today in food. In fact, we’ve spotted it only in Smarties candy and Subway Canada’s Honey Oat Bread (both plant-derived).

Have you seen it? Please let us know! Thanks!

-Jeanne Yacoubou, Research Director

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