Disodium Inosinate
Disodium Inosinate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 4,854 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Disodium Inosinate appears in 4,854 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 4,854
- catalogued products
- #213
- usage rank of 247,206
- 848
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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 Inosinate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#213 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #213
- 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
- 79%
- Mean relative depth 79% across 4,854 parsed labels, slot 27.5 on average. Disodium Inosinate tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
55.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Disodium Inosinate as the trigger. Open records such as 100% Vegetable Juice; 11.00Oz Cra Cool Ranch; 16 Bean Soup Mix and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 79% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
55.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 4854 of 4854 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 Disodium Inosinate
Across the 4,854 products on this site that list Disodium Inosinate, 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 4.8x more often with Disodium Inosinate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Disodium Inosinate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,321 | 27.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 673 | 13.9% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 626 | 12.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 503 | 10.4% | 5.4% |
| TBHQ | 292 | 6% | 0.5% |
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
FLAVOR ENHANCER, 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 Disodium Inosinate
Products Containing Disodium Inosinate
High-volume slice (16 of 4,854) for products naming Disodium Inosinate:
Disodium Inosinate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Disodium Inosinate: 4,854 listings averaging 83.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Sodium Ascorbate”, “Glucose Syrup”, “Natural Smoke Flavor”.
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 Inosinate record
Start from Disodium Inosinate's 4,854 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Disodium Inosinate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Disodium Inosinate with a peer such as “Sodium Ascorbate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Disodium Inosinate
How should I read safety signals when Disodium Inosinate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
55.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Disodium Inosinate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Disodium Inosinate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Disodium Inosinate? ▼
Disodium Inosinate ranks in the top decile by product count (#213 of 247,206), appearing in 4,854 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Disodium Inosinate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Disodium Inosinate is recorded as a flavor enhancer, 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 (Disodium Inosinate). 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.