Calcium Iodate
Calcium Iodate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 364 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Iodate appears in 364 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.
- 364
- catalogued products
- #1,292
- usage rank of 247,206
- 98
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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 Iodate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,292 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,292
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 364 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Averaged label depth puts Calcium Iodate in the lower half of the list (66% of list length, mean slot 23.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 97 of 364 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Whole Wheat 8 Hamburger Buns; 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 100% WHOLE WHEAT BREAD to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 60–100 score range to Calcium Iodate 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.
97 of 364 linked records have some flagged component
All 362 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 60–100 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 Iodate
Across the 364 products on this site that list Calcium Iodate, 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 96x more often with Calcium Iodate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Iodate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azodicarbonamide | 70 | 19.2% | 0.2% |
| Potassium Iodate | 10 | 2.7% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 10 | 2.7% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 5 | 1.4% | 0.7% |
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, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, 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 Calcium Iodate
Products Containing Calcium Iodate
High-volume slice (16 of 364) for products naming Calcium Iodate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Beta Carotene For Color”)
High-volume peers for Calcium Iodate: 364 products, mean screening score 96.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Beta Carotene For Color · Organic Pea Starch · Stearic Acid. 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.
Using the Calcium Iodate evidence
Start from Calcium Iodate's 364 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Calcium Iodate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Calcium Iodate next to “Organic Pea Starch” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Iodate
Does Calcium Iodate 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 Iodate 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 Iodate? ▼
Calcium Iodate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,292 of 247,206), appearing in 364 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 Iodate do in food? ▼
Calcium Iodate is recorded as a dough strengthener, flour treating agent, nutrient supplement, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Iodate). 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.