Electrolytes
Electrolytes appears in 178 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
Electrolytes appears in 178 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.
- 178
- catalogued products
- #2,094
- usage rank of 247,206
- 66
- named brands represented
- 38%
- 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.
Electrolytes: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,094 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,094
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 178 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Mean relative depth 38% across 178 parsed labels, slot 5.0 on average. Electrolytes tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Electrolytes spans 66 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with Absopure Plus; Absopure+, Vapor Distilled Water; acai blueberry pomegranate nutrient enhanced water beverage when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 93.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
66 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 108 of 160 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 Electrolytes
Across the 178 products on this site that list Electrolytes, 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 4.4x more often with Electrolytes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Electrolytes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 21 | 11.8% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 11 | 6.2% | 1.8% |
| Blue 1 | 11 | 6.2% | 4.2% |
| Monk fruit extract | 7 | 3.9% | 0.5% |
| Red 40 | 6 | 3.4% | 5.4% |
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 Electrolytes
Products Containing Electrolytes
High-volume slice (16 of 178) for products naming Electrolytes:
Electrolytes vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Electrolytes: 178 listings averaging 93.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Bleached Wheat Flour Enriched · Blue #2 · Concord Grape Juice.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Electrolytes evidence
178 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Electrolytes are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Electrolytes to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Electrolytes with a peer such as “Bleached Wheat Flour Enriched” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Electrolytes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Electrolytes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,094 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Electrolytes? ▼
Electrolytes ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,094 of 247,206), appearing in 178 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Electrolytes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Electrolytes appears in 178 products (#2,094 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Electrolytes). 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.