Ferric Phosphate
Ferric Phosphate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 379 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ferric Phosphate appears in 379 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 379
- catalogued products
- #1,254
- usage rank of 247,206
- 81
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
Ferric Phosphate: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,254 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,254
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 379 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 379 products listing it (mean slot 11.2). Ferric Phosphate 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 136 of 379 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 90 Calorie Cereal Bars; Ahold instant oatmeal maple & brown sugar; Apple & cinnamon instant traditional hot cereal, apple & cinnamon to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ferric Phosphate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
136 of 379 linked records have some flagged component
All 366 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 Ferric Phosphate
Across the 379 products on this site that list Ferric Phosphate, 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 2.9x more often with Ferric Phosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ferric Phosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 63 | 16.6% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 29 | 7.7% | 5.4% |
| Sucralose | 22 | 5.8% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 20 | 5.3% | 1.8% |
| Yellow 5 | 13 | 3.4% | 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.
Function
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Ferric Phosphate
Products Containing Ferric Phosphate
High-volume slice (16 of 379) for products naming Ferric Phosphate:
High-volume peers for Ferric Phosphate beside “Invert Cane Syrup”
High-volume peers for Ferric Phosphate: 379 products, mean screening score 91.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Invert Cane Syrup; Jalapeño Peppers; Onion Extract. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Ferric Phosphate page
379 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ferric Phosphate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Ferric Phosphate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ferric Phosphate — common follow-ups
Does Ferric Phosphate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Ferric Phosphate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" 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 Ferric Phosphate? ▼
Ferric Phosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,254 of 247,206), appearing in 379 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 Ferric Phosphate do in food? ▼
Ferric Phosphate is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ferric Phosphate). 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.