D-sorbitol
D-sorbitol carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 32 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
D-sorbitol appears in 32 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.
- 32
- catalogued products
- #6,747
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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.
D-sorbitol: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,747 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,747
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 148 others that also appear in exactly 32 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Averaged label depth puts D-sorbitol in the upper half of the list (46% of list length, mean slot 21.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: D-sorbitol spans 15 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Bae Hong Dong; Bowl noodle soup; Bowl Noodles Hot & Spicy Flavor when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
15 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 32 of 32 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
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 D-sorbitol
Products Containing D-sorbitol
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 32 indexed products containing D-sorbitol:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
D-sorbitol sits among other busy catalog rows (32 products, mean score 98.9/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the D-sorbitol evidence
32 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on D-sorbitol are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing D-sorbitol 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. Compare a peer
- 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 D-sorbitol
What do the source ratings say about D-sorbitol? ▼
D-sorbitol has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 15.6% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with D-sorbitol? ▼
D-sorbitol ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,747 of 247,206), appearing in 32 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 D-sorbitol do in food? ▼
D-sorbitol is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, drying agent, flavoring agent or adjuvant, humectant, nutrient supplement, nutritive sweetener, ph control agent, solvent or vehicle, stabilizer or thickener, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (D-sorbitol). 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.