Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
Jurisdiction	Status	Scope and limits	Citation
United StatesFood and Drug Administration	Permitted, with conditions		21 CFR 172.854retrieved 2026-09-07
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFA	Permitted, with conditions	51 food categories highest permitted level 20,000 mg/kg Show every food category 01.1.2 Other Fluid Milk (plain) — 770 mg/kg 01.1.4 Flavoured Fluid Milk Drinks — 2,000 mg/kg 01.3.2 Beverage whiteners — 5,000 mg/kg 01.4.1 Pasteurized cream (plain) — 6,000 mg/kg 01.4.2 Sterilized and UHT creams, whipping and whipped creams, and reduced fat creams (plain) — 6,000 mg/kg 01.4.3 Clotted cream (plain) — 6,000 mg/kg 01.4.4 Cream analogues — 8,000 mg/kg 01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues — 5,000 mg/kg 01.6.4 Processed cheese — 5,000 mg/kg 01.6.5 Cheese analogues — 5,000 mg/kg 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) — 4,000 mg/kg 02.1.2 Vegetable oils and fats — 10,000 mg/kg 02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads — 5,000 mg/kg 02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of type oil-in-water, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions — 5,000 mg/kg 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 — 2,000 mg/kg 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet — 2,500 mg/kg 04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries — 1,000 mg/kg 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, incl. fruit-flavoured water-based desserts — 100 mg/kg 05.1.1 Cocoa mixes (powders) and cocoa mass/cake — 3,750 mg/kg 05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products — 2,000 mg/kg 05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3, and 05.4 — 2,000 mg/kg 05.3 Chewing gum — 5,000 mg/kg 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit), and sweet sauces — 2,000 mg/kg 06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats — 2,000 mg/kg 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products — 2,000 mg/kg 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) — 2,000 mg/kg 06.8.1 Soybean-based beverages — 20,000 mg/kg 07.1.1 Breads and rolls — 1,000 mg/kg 07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers — 2,500 mg/kg 07.1.3 Other ordinary bakery products (e.g. bagels, pita, English muffins) — 300 mg/kg 07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs — 10,000 mg/kg 07.1.6 Mixes for bread and ordinary bakery wares — 15,000 mg/kg 07.2.1 Cakes, cookies and pies (e.g. fruit-filled or custard types) — 10,000 mg/kg 07.2.2 Other fine bakery products (e.g. doughnuts, sweet rolls, scones, and muffins) — 10,000 mg/kg 07.2.3 Mixes for fine bakery wares (e.g. cakes, pancakes) — 16,000 mg/kg 09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products — 10 mg/kg 09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — 1,200 mg/kg 10.2 Egg products — 1,000 mg/kg 10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) — 2,000 mg/kg 12.5.1 Ready-to-eat soups and broths, including canned, bottled, and frozen — 400 mg/kg 12.5.2 Mixes for soups and broths — 3,000 mg/kg 12.6.1 Emulsified sauces and dips (e.g. mayonnaise, salad dressing, onion dips) — 5,000 mg/kg 12.6.2 Non-emulsified sauces (e.g. ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy) — 5,000 mg/kg 12.6.3 Mixes for sauces and gravies — 5,000 mg/kg 13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1) — 1,000 mg/kg 13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction — 1,000 mg/kg 13.6 Food supplements — 4,000 mg/kg 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," “energy,” or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks — 1,200 mg/kg 14.1.5 Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa — 1,200 mg/kg 14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low-alcoholic refreshers) — 20 mg/kg 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) — 1,600 mg/kg	CXS 192-1995 Table One, INS 475and 50 further provisionsretrieved 2026-09-07

What it is made from

Made by joining glycerol units into a polyglycerol backbone and esterifying it with fatty acids. Both the glycerol and the fatty acids may be plant or animal in origin.

Vegan status depends on the source
Vegetarian status depends on the source
May raise a halal question
May raise a kosher question

This is not an omission. What this additive is made from is not fixed — depending on the manufacturer it may be plant, animal or microbial in origin, nobody is required to say which, and the same product can change source between production runs. Ask the manufacturer if it matters to you; a label cannot answer it.

Every name it appears under

5 recorded names. A label may use any of them.

E number

E475

INS number

As it appears in regulation

Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids

Other names

POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS
Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids (E 475)

Hazard reference values

No reference value for this substance in the sources we hold.

Evidence and how bodies read it

Studies, and the differing conclusions regulators drew from them, are curated by hand rather than machine-read, and none has been written for this substance yet.

Sources for this page

ecfr retrieved 2026-09-07
gsfa retrieved 2026-09-07

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