Calcium Pantothenate

Calcium Pantothenate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,554 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

Calcium Pantothenate appears in 2,554 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.

2,554
catalogued products
#341
usage rank of 247,206
385
named brands represented
69%
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 Pantothenate - usage rank #341

Usage rank
#341
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
69%
Averaged label depth puts Calcium Pantothenate in the lower half of the list (69% of list length, mean slot 24.2). 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

58.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Calcium Pantothenate as the trigger. Open records such as 3-2-1 Plan Shakes; 310 Chocolate Bliss Shake | 310 Nutrition; 360 Total Care Infant Formula and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 82.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 69% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

58.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 2466 of 2544 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

What else is usually in the same product as Calcium Pantothenate

Across the 2,554 products on this site that list Calcium Pantothenate, 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. Sucralose shows up about 8.1x more often with Calcium Pantothenate than in the catalogue at large.

Sucralose: +19.2ppSucralose+19.2ppCarrageenan: +13.7ppCarrageenan+13.7ppAcesulfame Potassium: +13ppAcesulfame Potassium+13ppCaramel Coloring: +7.2ppCaramel Coloring+7.2ppRed 40: +4.5ppRed 40+4.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Calcium Pantothenate products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sucralose
19.2pp
Carrageenan
13.7pp
Acesulfame Potassium
13pp
Caramel Coloring
7.2pp
Red 40
4.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Calcium Pantothenate products Share of all products
Sucralose 559 21.9% 2.7%
Carrageenan 466 18.2% 4.5%
Acesulfame Potassium 378 14.8% 1.8%
Caramel Coloring 330 12.9% 5.7%
Red 40 254 9.9% 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.

Function

NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT

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 Pantothenate

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 020406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Calcium Pantothenate
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Calcium Pantothenate beside “Ferric Orthophosphate”

Calcium Pantothenate sits among other busy catalog rows (2,554 products, mean score 82.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Ferric Orthophosphate · Annatto Color · Biotin. 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.

Next steps from the Calcium Pantothenate page

Start from Calcium Pantothenate's 2,554 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Calcium Pantothenate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read safety signals when Calcium Pantothenate sits in heavily flagged products?

58.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Calcium Pantothenate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Calcium Pantothenate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Calcium Pantothenate?

Calcium Pantothenate ranks in the top decile by product count (#341 of 247,206), appearing in 2,554 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What function does Calcium Pantothenate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives?

Calcium Pantothenate is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Pantothenate). 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.