Calcium Chloride
Calcium Chloride carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 10,872 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Chloride appears in 10,872 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.
- 10,872
- catalogued products
- #108
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,626
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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.
Calcium Chloride: top-decile catalog footprint (#108 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #108
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Mean relative depth 61% across 10,875 parsed labels, slot 11.3 on average. Calcium Chloride tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3142 of 10872 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100 Calorie Greek Nonfat Yogurt; 100 calories greek strained nonfat yogurt; 100% Parmesan Grated Cheese to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Calcium Chloride itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3142 of 10,872 linked records have some flagged component
All 10603 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 Calcium Chloride
Across the 10,872 products on this site that list Calcium Chloride, 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. Polysorbate 80 shows up about 11.2x more often with Calcium Chloride than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Chloride products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 80 | 1,585 | 14.6% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,391 | 12.8% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 433 | 4% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 330 | 3% | 4.2% |
| Carrageenan | 329 | 3% | 4.5% |
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
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, ENZYME, FIRMING AGENT, FREEZING OR COOLING AGENT, DIRECT CONTACT, FUMIGANT, HUMECTANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING
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 Calcium Chloride
Products Containing Calcium Chloride
16 busy labels from the 10,872 indexed products that list Calcium Chloride:
High-volume peers for Calcium Chloride beside “Niacinamide”
Calcium Chloride sits among other busy catalog rows (10,872 products, mean score 93/100). Nearest count peers include “Niacinamide”, “Sucralose”, “Vanilla Extract”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Calcium Chloride evidence
Start from Calcium Chloride's 10,872 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Calcium Chloride to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Calcium Chloride next to “Sucralose” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Calcium Chloride carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Calcium Chloride 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 Calcium Chloride? ▼
Calcium Chloride ranks in the top decile by product count (#108 of 247,206), appearing in 10,872 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 Calcium Chloride do in food? ▼
Calcium Chloride is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, drying agent, enzyme, firming agent, freezing or cooling agent, direct contact, fumigant, humectant, malting or fermenting aid, ph control agent, processing in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Chloride). 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.