Ancient Sea Salt
Ancient Sea Salt appears in 39 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
Ancient Sea Salt appears in 39 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.
- 39
- catalogued products
- #5,893
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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 Ancient Sea Salt - usage rank #5,893
- Usage rank
- #5,893
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 113 others that also appear in exactly 39 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 39 products listing it (mean slot 4.1). Ancient Sea Salt usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance
No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: Ancient Sea Salt reaches 12 named brands, most often appears under Dietary supplements, and typically sits in the upper half of the list. Product examples include Ancestral Minerals; Ancient Fine Sea Salt; Belgian Milk Chocolate Truffle With Sea Salt Toffee. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.
0% of linked products currently carry a separately flagged ingredient
Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 4 (27 of 29), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.
Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.
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 Ancient Sea Salt
Products Containing Ancient Sea Salt
16 busy labels from the 39 indexed products that list Ancient Sea Salt:
High-volume peers for Ancient Sea Salt
Top-decile company for Ancient Sea Salt: 39 listings averaging 100/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Ancient Sea Salt record
39 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ancient Sea Salt are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Ancient Sea Salt before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Ancient Sea Salt
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ancient Sea Salt? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ancient Sea Salt, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,893 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ancient Sea Salt? ▼
Ancient Sea Salt ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,893 of 247,206), appearing in 39 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ancient Sea Salt so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ancient Sea Salt appears in 39 products (#5,893 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ancient Sea Salt). 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.