Iodine
Iodine appears in 113 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
Iodine appears in 113 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.
- 113
- catalogued products
- #2,880
- usage rank of 247,206
- 63
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 35 of 113 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Adult Gummies Calcium 500 Mg With D3 & Zinc; Age 50+ Multivitamin Iron-free; Base Control Women's Multi Daily Nutrients to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Iodine itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
35 of 113 linked records have some flagged component
All 103 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
High-volume listing for Iodine - usage rank #2,880
- Usage rank
- #2,880
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 22 others that also appear in exactly 113 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Averaged label depth puts Iodine in the lower half of the list (65% of list length, mean slot 31.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Iodine
Across the 113 products on this site that list Iodine, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 4.3x more often with Iodine than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Iodine products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 22 | 19.5% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 5 | 4.4% | 2.7% |
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 Iodine
Products Containing Iodine
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 113 indexed products containing Iodine:
Iodine vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Iodine: 113 products, mean screening score 96.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Aceite Vegetal”, “Capsicum”, “Cellulose Gel And Gum”. 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.
What to do with this Iodine record
113 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Iodine are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Iodine and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Iodine next to “Capsicum” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Iodine
Does Iodine carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Iodine. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Iodine? ▼
Iodine ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,880 of 247,206), appearing in 113 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Iodine so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Iodine appears in 113 products (#2,880 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Iodine). 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.