Dipotassium Phosphate

Dipotassium Phosphate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 4,335 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

Dipotassium Phosphate appears in 4,335 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.

4,335
catalogued products
#239
usage rank of 247,206
776
named brands represented
56%
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.

Dipotassium Phosphate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#239 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#239
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
56%
Mean relative depth 56% across 4,335 parsed labels, slot 13.6 on average. Dipotassium Phosphate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

56.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Dipotassium Phosphate as the trigger. Open records such as 100 calories protein nutrition shake; 100% Mass Gainer Chocolate Fudge Brownie; 100% Whey Protein and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 88.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 56% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

56.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 4245 of 4318 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 Dipotassium Phosphate

Across the 4,335 products on this site that list Dipotassium Phosphate, 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 7.4x more often with Dipotassium Phosphate than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +28.7ppCarrageenan+28.7ppSucralose: +18.6ppSucralose+18.6ppAcesulfame Potassium: +9.8ppAcesulfame Potassium+9.8ppPolysorbate 60: +6.1ppPolysorbate 60+6.1ppCaramel Coloring: +1.4ppCaramel Coloring+1.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Dipotassium Phosphate products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Carrageenan
28.7pp
Sucralose
18.6pp
Acesulfame Potassium
9.8pp
Polysorbate 60
6.1pp
Caramel Coloring
1.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Dipotassium Phosphate products Share of all products
Carrageenan 1,439 33.2% 4.5%
Sucralose 925 21.3% 2.7%
Acesulfame Potassium 503 11.6% 1.8%
Polysorbate 60 326 7.5% 1.4%
Caramel Coloring 308 7.1% 5.7%

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

EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, 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 Dipotassium Phosphate

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 050100150 0246810 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dipotassium Phosphate
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 Dipotassium Phosphate beside “Sesame Seeds”

Dipotassium Phosphate sits among other busy catalog rows (4,335 products, mean score 88.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Sesame Seeds”, “Datem”, “Pecans”. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Dipotassium Phosphate evidence

4,335 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dipotassium Phosphate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Dipotassium Phosphate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare Dipotassium Phosphate with a peer such as “Sesame Seeds” 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. Read the 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 Dipotassium Phosphate sits in heavily flagged products?

56.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Dipotassium Phosphate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Dipotassium Phosphate 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 Dipotassium Phosphate?

Dipotassium Phosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#239 of 247,206), appearing in 4,335 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What function does Dipotassium Phosphate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives?

Dipotassium Phosphate is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, sequestrant, stabilizer or thickener 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 (Dipotassium Phosphate). 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.