Disodium
Disodium appears in 32 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
Disodium appears in 32 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.
- 32
- catalogued products
- #6,747
- usage rank of 247,206
- 27
- named brands represented
- 83%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 9 of 32 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare BAR-B-Q FLAVORED CORN CHIPS; Breaded Fish Sticks; Cheese and sour cream chips to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Disodium itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Undefined supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
9 of 32 linked records have some flagged component
All 30 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.
Disodium sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,747 / 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
- 83%
- Averaged label depth puts Disodium near the end of the captured list (83% of list length, mean slot 23.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Disodium
Across the 32 products on this site that list Disodium, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.7x more often with Disodium than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Disodium products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 15.6% | 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.
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 Disodium
Products Containing Disodium
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 32 indexed products containing Disodium:
Disodium vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Disodium sits among other busy catalog rows (32 products, mean score 91.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Disodium evidence
Use the 32-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Disodium and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Disodium 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 Disodium. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Disodium? ▼
Disodium ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,747 of 247,206), appearing in 32 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Disodium so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Disodium appears in 32 products (#6,747 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Disodium). 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.