E202 Kaliumsorbat

E202 Kaliumsorbat appears in 20 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

E202 Kaliumsorbat appears in 20 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.

20
catalogued products
#9,371
usage rank of 247,206
18
named brands represented
74%
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.

E202 Kaliumsorbat sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,371 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#9,371
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
74%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 20 products listing it (mean slot 17.5). E202 Kaliumsorbat usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: E202 Kaliumsorbat spans 18 named brands and is led by the Beverages and beverages preparations group. Start with Aloe Vera Drinking Gel Honey; Beef & Bacon Burger; Feiner Liptauer - Scharf when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

18 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 16 of 16 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 E202 Kaliumsorbat

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 16 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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing E202 Kaliumsorbat
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.

High-volume peers for E202 Kaliumsorbat

High-volume peers for E202 Kaliumsorbat: 20 products, mean screening score 97.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this E202 Kaliumsorbat record

20 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on E202 Kaliumsorbat are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list E202 Kaliumsorbat to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology

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

E202 Kaliumsorbat — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on E202 Kaliumsorbat?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to E202 Kaliumsorbat, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,371 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with E202 Kaliumsorbat?

E202 Kaliumsorbat ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is E202 Kaliumsorbat so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet E202 Kaliumsorbat appears in 20 products (#9,371 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (E202 Kaliumsorbat). 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.