Magnesium Chloride
Magnesium Chloride carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 773 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Magnesium Chloride appears in 773 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 773
- catalogued products
- #784
- usage rank of 247,206
- 212
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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 Magnesium Chloride - usage rank #784
- Usage rank
- #784
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts Magnesium Chloride in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 12.9). 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 this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 213 of 773 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2% Milk; 360 Total Care Infant Formula; 365 everyday value, organic vegan lasagna to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Magnesium Chloride 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.
213 of 773 linked records have some flagged component
All 743 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Magnesium Chloride
Across the 773 products on this site that list Magnesium Chloride, 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 3.4x more often with Magnesium Chloride than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Magnesium Chloride products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 119 | 15.4% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 71 | 9.2% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 42 | 5.4% | 1.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 2.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 1.7% | 5.4% |
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.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Magnesium Chloride
Products Containing Magnesium Chloride
High-volume slice (16 of 773) for products naming Magnesium Chloride:
High-volume peers for Magnesium Chloride beside “Asiago Cheese”
High-volume peers for Magnesium Chloride: 773 products, mean screening score 94.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Asiago Cheese · Autolyzed Yeast · Monopotassium Phosphate. 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 Magnesium Chloride record
773 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Magnesium Chloride are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Magnesium Chloride before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Magnesium Chloride with a peer such as “Asiago Cheese” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Magnesium Chloride
Does Magnesium Chloride carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Magnesium Chloride itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Magnesium Chloride? ▼
Magnesium Chloride ranks in the top decile by product count (#784 of 247,206), appearing in 773 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Magnesium Chloride do in food? ▼
Magnesium Chloride is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, firming agent, flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Magnesium Chloride). 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.