Magnesium Gluconate
Magnesium Gluconate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 12 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Magnesium Gluconate appears in 12 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 12
- catalogued products
- #13,357
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 40%
- 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.
Magnesium Gluconate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#13,357 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #13,357
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 832 others that also appear in exactly 12 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 12 products listing it (mean slot 6.2). Magnesium Gluconate usually falls in the upper 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Magnesium Gluconate spans 9 named brands and is led by the Beverages and beverages preparations group. Start with Calcium Magnesium Zinc; Cran-strawberry Juice; cranberry pineapple hydration when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
9 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 11 of 11 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.
Function
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 12 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 Gluconate
Products Containing Magnesium Gluconate
High-volume slice (12 of 12) for products naming Magnesium Gluconate:
Magnesium Gluconate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Magnesium Gluconate: 12 products, mean screening score 95.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Gluconate record
Use the 12-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Magnesium Gluconate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the source ratings say about Magnesium Gluconate? ▼
Magnesium Gluconate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Listed. With only 16.7% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Magnesium Gluconate? ▼
Magnesium Gluconate ranks in the top decile by product count (#13,357 of 247,206), appearing in 12 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Magnesium Gluconate do in food? ▼
Magnesium Gluconate is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Magnesium Gluconate). 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.