Electrolyte
Electrolyte appears in 155 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
Electrolyte appears in 155 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.
- 155
- catalogued products
- #2,309
- usage rank of 247,206
- 26
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Electrolyte - usage rank #2,309
- Usage rank
- #2,309
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 155 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 155 products listing it (mean slot 6.6). Electrolyte usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Electrolyte spans 26 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with Aqua Zero Water; Aquazero Z Fruit Punch; Blackberry Lime when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
26 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 138 of 149 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 Electrolyte
Across the 155 products on this site that list Electrolyte, 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. Sucralose shows up about 3.8x more often with Electrolyte than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Electrolyte products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 16 | 10.3% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 9 | 5.8% | 1.8% |
| Monk fruit extract | 5 | 3.2% | 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.
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 Electrolyte
Products Containing Electrolyte
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 155 indexed products containing Electrolyte:
High-volume peers for Electrolyte beside “B5”
Electrolyte sits among other busy catalog rows (155 products, mean score 97.4/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: B5 · Bovine · Chipotle. 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.
Next steps from the Electrolyte page
155 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Electrolyte are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Electrolyte and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 Electrolyte
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Electrolyte? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Electrolyte, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,309 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Electrolyte? ▼
Electrolyte ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,309 of 247,206), appearing in 155 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Electrolyte so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Electrolyte appears in 155 products (#2,309 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Electrolyte). 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.