Ferrous Gluconate
Ferrous Gluconate carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 680 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Ferrous Gluconate appears in 680 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” 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.
- 680
- catalogued products
- #849
- usage rank of 247,206
- 177
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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 Ferrous Gluconate - usage rank #849
- Usage rank
- #849
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 680 products listing it (mean slot 18.4). Ferrous Gluconate usually falls near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 152 of 680 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 5 Layer Dip; Ahold, self-rising crust, supreme pizza; Albice, Roasted Red Peppers, Sweet Olives to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ferrous Gluconate itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Salted-snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
152 of 680 linked records have some flagged component
All 653 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 3, 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 Ferrous Gluconate
Across the 680 products on this site that list Ferrous Gluconate, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 6.2x more often with Ferrous Gluconate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ferrous Gluconate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 101 | 14.9% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 81 | 11.9% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 77 | 11.3% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 30 | 4.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 27 | 4% | 4.5% |
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
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, 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 Ferrous Gluconate
Products Containing Ferrous Gluconate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 680 indexed products containing Ferrous Gluconate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Guar”)
Ferrous Gluconate sits among other busy catalog rows (680 products, mean score 93.2/100). Nearest count peers include “Guar”, “Chocolate Processed With Alkali”, “Feta Cheese”. 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 Ferrous Gluconate page
Start from Ferrous Gluconate's 680 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Ferrous Gluconate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ferrous Gluconate — common follow-ups
Does Ferrous Gluconate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Ferrous Gluconate itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating 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 Ferrous Gluconate? ▼
Ferrous Gluconate ranks in the top decile by product count (#849 of 247,206), appearing in 680 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ferrous Gluconate do in food? ▼
Ferrous Gluconate is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ferrous Gluconate). 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.