Disodium Succinate
Disodium Succinate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 217 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Disodium Succinate appears in 217 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 217
- catalogued products
- #1,845
- usage rank of 247,206
- 61
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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 Succinate: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,845 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,845
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 217 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Averaged label depth puts Disodium Succinate in the lower half of the list (57% of list length, mean slot 24.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 96 of 217 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A! Choice, Frozen Seasoned Spicy Scallop; ANSUNG Noodle Soup; Asian Style Instant Noodle to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Disodium Succinate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
96 of 217 linked records have some flagged component
All 217 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Disodium Succinate
Across the 217 products on this site that list Disodium Succinate, 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 5.8x more often with Disodium Succinate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Disodium Succinate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 72 | 33.2% | 5.7% |
| TBHQ | 51 | 23.5% | 0.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 9 | 4.1% | 4.8% |
| Sucralose | 7 | 3.2% | 2.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 7 | 3.2% | 2.1% |
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, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Succinate
Products Containing Disodium Succinate
16 busy labels from the 217 indexed products that list Disodium Succinate:
Disodium Succinate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Disodium Succinate sits among other busy catalog rows (217 products, mean score 91.9/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Cheese Sauce Mix · Citric · Organic Expeller-pressed Sunflower Oil. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Disodium Succinate page
Use the 217-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Disodium Succinate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Disodium Succinate with a peer such as “Cheese Sauce Mix” 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Disodium Succinate — common follow-ups
Does Disodium Succinate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Disodium Succinate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Listed" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Disodium Succinate? ▼
Disodium Succinate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,845 of 247,206), appearing in 217 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 Disodium Succinate do in food? ▼
Disodium Succinate is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Disodium Succinate). 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.