Kosher Salt
Kosher Salt appears in 1,030 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
Kosher Salt appears in 1,030 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.
- 1,030
- catalogued products
- #653
- usage rank of 247,206
- 307
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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.
Kosher Salt sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#653 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #653
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,030 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Averaged label depth puts Kosher Salt in the lower half of the list (71% of list length, mean slot 16.1). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Kosher Salt spans 307 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 100% Salsas, 3 Chile Blend Salsa; 18g Protein Black Bean Burger; 24/7 Chocolate Edible Cookie Dough, 24/7 Chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
307 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 551 of 965 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Kosher Salt
Across the 1,030 products on this site that list Kosher Salt, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Kosher Salt products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 68 | 6.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 41 | 4% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 10 | 1% | 1.3% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 0.8% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 0.5% | 4.8% |
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 Kosher Salt
Products Containing Kosher Salt
High-volume slice (16 of 1,030) for products naming Kosher Salt:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Buttermilk Solids”)
High-volume peers for Kosher Salt: 1,030 products, mean screening score 98.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Buttermilk Solids · Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil · Bell Peppers. 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 Kosher Salt record
Start from Kosher Salt's 1,030 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Kosher Salt to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Kosher Salt next to “Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil” (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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Kosher Salt? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Kosher Salt, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#653 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Kosher Salt? ▼
Kosher Salt ranks in the top decile by product count (#653 of 247,206), appearing in 1,030 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Kosher Salt so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Kosher Salt appears in 1,030 products (#653 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Kosher Salt). 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.