Calcium Sulfate
Calcium Sulfate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 9,372 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Sulfate appears in 9,372 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.
- 9,372
- catalogued products
- #130
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,238
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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 Sulfate - usage rank #130
- Usage rank
- #130
- 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
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 9,372 parsed labels, slot 25.9 on average. Calcium Sulfate 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: 4001 of 9372 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1% Lowfat Cultured Buttermilk; 1/2 Loaf; 1/2 Loaf Butter White to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Calcium Sulfate 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.
4001 of 9,372 linked records have some flagged component
All 9330 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 Sulfate
Across the 9,372 products on this site that list Calcium Sulfate, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3.5x more often with Calcium Sulfate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Sulfate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 1,461 | 15.6% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 1,105 | 11.8% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 1,097 | 11.7% | 5.7% |
| Potassium Iodate | 792 | 8.5% | 0.2% |
| Red 40 | 758 | 8.1% | 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
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Sulfate
Products Containing Calcium Sulfate
High-volume slice (16 of 9,372) for products naming Calcium Sulfate:
High-volume peers for Calcium Sulfate beside “Msg”
Top-decile company for Calcium Sulfate: 9,372 listings averaging 87.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Msg; Potatoes; Palm Kernel Oil.
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 Sulfate evidence
9,372 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Calcium Sulfate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Calcium Sulfate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Calcium Sulfate with a peer such as “Msg” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Sulfate
Does Calcium Sulfate 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 Sulfate 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 Sulfate? ▼
Calcium Sulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#130 of 247,206), appearing in 9,372 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 Sulfate do in food? ▼
Calcium Sulfate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, drying agent, formulation aid, leavening agent, lubricant or release agent, malting or fermenting aid, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Sulfate). 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.