Ammonium Sulfate
Ammonium Sulfate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 1,717 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ammonium Sulfate appears in 1,717 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 1,717
- catalogued products
- #456
- usage rank of 247,206
- 314
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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 Ammonium Sulfate - usage rank #456
- Usage rank
- #456
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Mean relative depth 78% across 1,717 parsed labels, slot 29.9 on average. Ammonium Sulfate tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 588 of 1717 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 1/2 Loaf; 1/2 Loaf Butter White to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ammonium Sulfate itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
588 of 1,717 linked records have some flagged component
All 1707 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Ammonium Sulfate
Across the 1,717 products on this site that list Ammonium Sulfate, 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. Azodicarbonamide shows up about 74.5x more often with Ammonium Sulfate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ammonium Sulfate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azodicarbonamide | 255 | 14.9% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 118 | 6.9% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 109 | 6.3% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 93 | 5.4% | 1.4% |
| BHT | 79 | 4.6% | 1.1% |
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.
Function
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, LEAVENING AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, PROCESSING AID
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 Ammonium Sulfate
Products Containing Ammonium Sulfate
16 busy labels from the 1,717 indexed products that list Ammonium Sulfate:
High-volume peers for Ammonium Sulfate beside “Black Beans”
High-volume peers for Ammonium Sulfate: 1,717 products, mean screening score 91.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Black Beans”, “Culture”, “Oleoresin Paprika”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
What to do with this Ammonium Sulfate record
Use the 1,717-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ammonium Sulfate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ammonium Sulfate — common follow-ups
Does Ammonium Sulfate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Ammonium Sulfate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ammonium Sulfate? ▼
Ammonium Sulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#456 of 247,206), appearing in 1,717 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ammonium Sulfate do in food? ▼
Ammonium Sulfate is recorded as a dough strengthener, firming agent, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, flour treating agent, leavening agent, malting or fermenting aid, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ammonium Sulfate). 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.