Disodium Diphosphate
Disodium Diphosphate appears in 305 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 Diphosphate appears in 305 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.
- 305
- catalogued products
- #1,480
- usage rank of 247,206
- 89
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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.
Disodium Diphosphate: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,480 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,480
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 305 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Averaged label depth puts Disodium Diphosphate in the lower half of the list (68% of list length, mean slot 18.7). 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Disodium Diphosphate spans 89 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 4 Cherry Bakewell Tarts; 4 Yum Yums; 6 Chocolate Slices when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
89 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 305 of 305 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Disodium Diphosphate
Across the 305 products on this site that list Disodium Diphosphate, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 1.9x more often with Disodium Diphosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Disodium Diphosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 8 | 2.6% | 1.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 8 | 2.6% | 2.1% |
| Red 40 | 8 | 2.6% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 1.6% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 1.6% | 4.8% |
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 Diphosphate
Products Containing Disodium Diphosphate
High-volume slice (16 of 305) for products naming Disodium Diphosphate:
High-volume peers for Disodium Diphosphate beside “Fresh Basil”
High-volume peers for Disodium Diphosphate: 305 products, mean screening score 97.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Fresh Basil · Cooked Brown Rice · Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Low Fat Milk. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
What to do with this Disodium Diphosphate record
305 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Disodium Diphosphate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Disodium Diphosphate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Disodium Diphosphate next to “Cooked Brown Rice” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Disodium Diphosphate — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Disodium Diphosphate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Disodium Diphosphate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,480 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Disodium Diphosphate? ▼
Disodium Diphosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,480 of 247,206), appearing in 305 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Disodium Diphosphate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Disodium Diphosphate appears in 305 products (#1,480 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Disodium Diphosphate). 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.