Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron
Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron appears in 244 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
Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron appears in 244 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.
- 244
- catalogued products
- #1,707
- usage rank of 247,206
- 23
- named brands represented
- 15%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
52% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron as the trigger. Open records such as Apple Cinnamon Danish Pastries; Artisan french rolls; Baby Bundt lemon and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 72.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 15% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
52% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 235 of 238 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,707 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,707
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 244 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 15%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 244 products listing it (mean slot 6.4). Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron usually falls near the top 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron
Across the 244 products on this site that list Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 40.1x more often with Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 137 | 56.1% | 1.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 75 | 30.7% | 2.1% |
| Red 40 | 65 | 26.6% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 61 | 25% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 40 | 16.4% | 3.4% |
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 Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron
Products Containing Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron
16 busy labels from the 244 indexed products that list Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron:
Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron: 244 listings averaging 72.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Celery Seeds; Ginger Extract; Rennet Casein.
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 Sulfate Or Reduced Iron page
Start from Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron's 244 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron next to “Ginger Extract” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron
How should I read safety signals when Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
52% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron? ▼
Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,707 of 247,206), appearing in 244 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron appears in 244 products (#1,707 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ferrous Sulfate Or Reduced Iron). 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.