Iron Sulfate

Iron Sulfate appears in 4 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

Iron Sulfate appears in 4 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.

4
catalogued products
#28,812
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
54%
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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Cheetos Mac 'N Cheese Flamin' Hot; Chicken Cacciatore; Creamy Cajun-Style Pasta to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Iron Sulfate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Baby-formula supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component

All 4 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.

Iron Sulfate: above-median product count (beats 88.3% of ranked ingredients)

Usage rank
#28,812
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
54%
Mean relative depth 54% across 4 parsed labels, slot 22.0 on average. Iron Sulfate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 4 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 Iron Sulfate

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 4 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 020406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Iron Sulfate Cheetos Mac 'N Cheese Flamin' HotChicken CacciatoreCreamy Cajun-Style PastaOrganic Cow Follow-on milk
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Products Containing Iron Sulfate

All 4 indexed products that name Iron Sulfate:

Download these 4 product rows (CSV) 4 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Ingredients with similar product-count or score profiles

Use the lists below to place Iron Sulfate against similar footprints (4 products).

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Iron Sulfate evidence

Use the 4-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Iron Sulfate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Iron Sulfate 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 Iron Sulfate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Where does Iron Sulfate show up across the catalog?

Iron Sulfate sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 4 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.

Why is Iron Sulfate so common on ingredient lists?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Iron Sulfate. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Iron Sulfate). 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.