Sorbitan tristearate (E492): What the Sources Found

Sorbitan tristearate is the emulsifier the food industry lists as E492. In our table it is no risk identified: it takes no points off a product's score for a child.

In short

No risk identified. No regulator finding we score, so a product keeps all 33 additive points.
No child flag. Nothing below is written about children specifically, so the class is the same at every age.
1 citation from EFSA, each one below.

What Sorbitan tristearate does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Sorbitan tristearate takes no points off a product's score. Scan the pack in Sito and the score you get is the one for your own child's age, with this additive named in the reasons. How we score has the whole method.

What the sources found

Every classification in our table comes from the citations below, and nothing else. They are quoted as the source wrote them.

EFSA 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4788 (PMC7010202)
Re-evaluation of sorbitan esters E 491-E 495 (including sorbitan tristearate E 492): group ADI 10 mg/kg bw per day as sorbitan; refined non-brand-loyal exposure did not exceed the ADI at mean or P95 in any population group; no safety concern at reported levels and use patterns.

Why this class

Clean current EFSA and FDA status. These rows exist so that an unfamiliar additive is never treated as a bad one: a missing row costs a product nothing, and a clean row says so with citations.

Our confidence in this row's classification is high. Medium or low does not mean the evidence is weak; it means something about the row is still being pinned down, usually a regulatory status confirmed from one source rather than two.