Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate
Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate appears in 8 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate appears in 8 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 8
- catalogued products
- #17,814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3 of 8 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ghirardelli chocolate, dark chocolate squares bar; La yogurt, light probiotic blended nonfat yogurt, blueberry; Minced garlic in water to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3 of 8 linked records have some flagged component
All 8 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate: top-decile catalog footprint (#17,814 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #17,814
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Mean relative depth 74% across 8 parsed labels, slot 11.1 on average. Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 8 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 Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate
Products Containing Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate
A sample of 8 high-volume listings among the 8 indexed products containing Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate sits among other busy catalog rows (8 products, mean score 83.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate page
8 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate
Does Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate? ▼
Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citric Acid Potassium Sorbate). 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.