As A Preservative
As A Preservative appears in 1,275 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
As A Preservative appears in 1,275 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.
- 1,275
- catalogued products
- #569
- usage rank of 247,206
- 336
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 492 of 1275 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/3 Less Fat Than Cream Cheese; 12" lattice apple pie; ABC SWEET soy sauce 600ml to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to As A Preservative itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
492 of 1,275 linked records have some flagged component
All 1264 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.
High-volume listing for As A Preservative - usage rank #569
- Usage rank
- #569
- 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
- 79%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,275 products listing it (mean slot 15.2). As A Preservative usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as As A Preservative
Across the 1,275 products on this site that list As A Preservative, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3x more often with As A Preservative than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of As A Preservative products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 220 | 17.3% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 61 | 4.8% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 58 | 4.5% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 58 | 4.5% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 53 | 4.2% | 5.4% |
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.
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 As A Preservative
Products Containing As A Preservative
High-volume slice (16 of 1,275) for products naming As A Preservative:
As A Preservative vs other top-decile catalog footprints
As A Preservative sits among other busy catalog rows (1,275 products, mean score 92.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bananas; Taurine; Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Using the As A Preservative evidence
Start from As A Preservative's 1,275 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for As A Preservative and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare As A Preservative with a peer such as “Bananas” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
As A Preservative — common follow-ups
Does As A Preservative carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to As A Preservative. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with As A Preservative? ▼
As A Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#569 of 247,206), appearing in 1,275 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is As A Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet As A Preservative appears in 1,275 products (#569 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (As A Preservative). 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.