Magnesium Sulfate
Magnesium Sulfate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 424 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Magnesium Sulfate appears in 424 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.
- 424
- catalogued products
- #1,153
- usage rank of 247,206
- 139
- 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.
Magnesium Sulfate: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,153 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,153
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 424 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Averaged label depth puts Magnesium Sulfate in the lower half of the list (54% of list length, mean slot 9.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 205 of 424 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 51 Fifty, Energy Drink, Fruit Punch; 989 Ondemand, Enhanced Vitamin Beverage, Kiwi Strawberry; 989 Ondemand, Enhanced Vitamin Beverage, Lemon-Lime to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to Magnesium Sulfate 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.
205 of 424 linked records have some flagged component
All 398 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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 Sulfate
Across the 424 products on this site that list Magnesium Sulfate, 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. Sucralose shows up about 16.8x more often with Magnesium Sulfate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Magnesium Sulfate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 192 | 45.3% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 75 | 17.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 65 | 15.3% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 34 | 8% | 4.2% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 31 | 7.3% | 1.8% |
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.
Function
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Sulfate
Products Containing Magnesium Sulfate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 424 indexed products containing Magnesium Sulfate:
High-volume peers for Magnesium Sulfate beside “Dried Onion And Garlic Powder”
Top-decile company for Magnesium Sulfate: 424 listings averaging 79.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Dried Onion And Garlic Powder · Sweeteners · Acid.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Magnesium Sulfate record
Use the 424-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 Sulfate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Magnesium Sulfate next to “Sweeteners” (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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Magnesium Sulfate
Does Magnesium 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. Magnesium Sulfate 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 Sulfate? ▼
Magnesium Sulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,153 of 247,206), appearing in 424 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Magnesium Sulfate do in food? ▼
Magnesium Sulfate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, formulation aid, lubricant or release agent, malting or fermenting aid, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Magnesium 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.