Calcium Propionate
Calcium Propionate carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 7,256 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Calcium Propionate appears in 7,256 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” 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.
- 7,256
- catalogued products
- #161
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,210
- 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.
Calcium Propionate: top-decile catalog footprint (#161 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #161
- 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%
- Mean relative depth 69% across 7,261 parsed labels, slot 23.3 on average. Calcium Propionate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2162 of 7256 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 donut; 1/2 Loaf Butter White; 100% light whole wheat to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Calcium Propionate 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.
2162 of 7,256 linked records have some flagged component
All 7208 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 Propionate
Across the 7,256 products on this site that list Calcium Propionate, 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 52.5x more often with Calcium Propionate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Propionate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 761 | 10.5% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 732 | 10.1% | 5.7% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 441 | 6.1% | 0.2% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 373 | 5.1% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 300 | 4.1% | 1.4% |
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
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT
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 Propionate
Products Containing Calcium Propionate
High-volume slice (16 of 7,256) for products naming Calcium Propionate:
Calcium Propionate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Calcium Propionate: 7,256 listings averaging 92.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Palm · Organic Sunflower · Lemon Juice.
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 Propionate evidence
Start from Calcium Propionate's 7,256 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Calcium Propionate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Calcium Propionate — common follow-ups
Does Calcium Propionate 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 Propionate itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating 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 Propionate? ▼
Calcium Propionate ranks in the top decile by product count (#161 of 247,206), appearing in 7,256 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 Propionate do in food? ▼
Calcium Propionate is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, antioxidant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Propionate). 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.