Monopotassium Glutamate
Monopotassium Glutamate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 10 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Monopotassium Glutamate appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- 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.
Monopotassium Glutamate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#15,180 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Mean relative depth 71% across 10 parsed labels, slot 16.7 on average. Monopotassium Glutamate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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: 2 of 10 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chicken Noodle Condensed Soup; Chicken Noodle Condensed Soup; Chicken Noodle Reduced Sodium to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to Monopotassium Glutamate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Undefined supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2 of 10 linked records have some flagged component
All 10 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 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.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Monopotassium Glutamate
Products Containing Monopotassium Glutamate
10 busy labels from the 10 indexed products that list Monopotassium Glutamate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Monopotassium Glutamate sits among other busy catalog rows (10 products, mean score 98/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Monopotassium Glutamate page
Start from Monopotassium Glutamate's 10 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Monopotassium Glutamate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Monopotassium Glutamate
Does Monopotassium Glutamate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Monopotassium Glutamate 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 Monopotassium Glutamate? ▼
Monopotassium Glutamate ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Monopotassium Glutamate do in food? ▼
Monopotassium Glutamate is recorded as a flavor enhancer, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Monopotassium Glutamate). 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.