Calcium Gluconate
Calcium Gluconate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 89 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Gluconate appears in 89 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.
- 89
- catalogued products
- #3,412
- usage rank of 247,206
- 34
- 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.
High-volume listing for Calcium Gluconate - usage rank #3,412
- Usage rank
- #3,412
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 89 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Averaged label depth puts Calcium Gluconate in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 11.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 25 of 89 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% concord grape juice, concord grape; 100% Grape Juice; 100% Grape Juice Made With Welch's Own North American Concord Grapes, Grape to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Calcium Gluconate 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.
25 of 89 linked records have some flagged component
All 87 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 Gluconate
Across the 89 products on this site that list Calcium Gluconate, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 5.6x more often with Calcium Gluconate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Gluconate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 9 | 10.1% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 9 | 10.1% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 9 | 10.1% | 4.2% |
| Sucralose | 8 | 9% | 2.7% |
| TBHQ | 6 | 6.7% | 0.5% |
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
FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
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 Gluconate
Products Containing Calcium Gluconate
High-volume slice (16 of 89) for products naming Calcium Gluconate:
Calcium Gluconate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Calcium Gluconate: 89 products, mean screening score 87.5/100. Nearest count peers include “As An Emulsifier”, “Balsamic Vinegar Of Modena”, “Carob Bean And Guar Gums”. 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.
Next steps from the Calcium Gluconate page
Start from Calcium Gluconate's 89 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Calcium Gluconate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Calcium Gluconate with a peer such as “As An Emulsifier” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Calcium Gluconate
Does Calcium Gluconate 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 Gluconate 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 Gluconate? ▼
Calcium Gluconate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,412 of 247,206), appearing in 89 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 Gluconate do in food? ▼
Calcium Gluconate is recorded as a firming agent, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, nutrient supplement, sequestrant, stabilizer or thickener, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Gluconate). 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.