Ferrous Sulphate
Ferrous Sulphate appears in 106 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 Sulphate appears in 106 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.
- 106
- catalogued products
- #3,011
- usage rank of 247,206
- 40
- 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.
High-volume listing for Ferrous Sulphate - usage rank #3,011
- Usage rank
- #3,011
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 21 others that also appear in exactly 106 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Averaged label depth puts Ferrous Sulphate in the upper half of the list (38% of list length, mean slot 11.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 12.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ferrous Sulphate spans 40 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 365 everyday value, cream of mushroom condensed soup; Acini de pepe; Actagain Strawberry Burst Flavour when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
40 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 70 of 97 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.
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 Sulphate
Products Containing Ferrous Sulphate
High-volume slice (16 of 106) for products naming Ferrous Sulphate:
High-volume peers for Ferrous Sulphate beside “Organic Ancho Chili Pepper”
Top-decile company for Ferrous Sulphate: 106 listings averaging 98/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Ancho Chili Pepper”, “As Methylcobalamin”, “Bacon Cured With Water”.
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.
What to do with this Ferrous Sulphate record
106 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ferrous Sulphate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Ferrous Sulphate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Ferrous Sulphate next to “As Methylcobalamin” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ferrous Sulphate — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ferrous Sulphate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ferrous Sulphate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,011 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ferrous Sulphate? ▼
Ferrous Sulphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,011 of 247,206), appearing in 106 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ferrous Sulphate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ferrous Sulphate appears in 106 products (#3,011 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ferrous Sulphate). 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.