Pink Himalayan Salt
Pink Himalayan Salt appears in 263 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
Pink Himalayan Salt appears in 263 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.
- 263
- catalogued products
- #1,626
- usage rank of 247,206
- 107
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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.
Pink Himalayan Salt sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,626 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,626
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 263 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Mean relative depth 72% across 263 parsed labels, slot 8.0 on average. Pink Himalayan Salt tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pink Himalayan Salt spans 107 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Natural Hydrator Premium Electrolyte Drink Mix Grapefruit; 7 Licious, Salted Caramel Corn, Original; All Natural & Artisan Himalayan Pink Salt With Grinder when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
107 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 128 of 235 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 Pink Himalayan Salt
Across the 263 products on this site that list Pink Himalayan 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 19.8x more often with Pink Himalayan Salt than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pink Himalayan Salt products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 26 | 9.9% | 0.5% |
| Sucralose | 15 | 5.7% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 8 | 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.
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 Pink Himalayan Salt
Products Containing Pink Himalayan Salt
High-volume slice (16 of 263) for products naming Pink Himalayan Salt:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Colored With Beta Carotene”)
High-volume peers for Pink Himalayan Salt: 263 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Colored With Beta Carotene”, “Fd&c Colors”, “Unsweetened Chocolate Processed With Alkali”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Pink Himalayan Salt page
Start from Pink Himalayan Salt's 263 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Pink Himalayan Salt before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Pink Himalayan Salt — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pink Himalayan Salt? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pink Himalayan Salt, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,626 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pink Himalayan Salt? ▼
Pink Himalayan Salt ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,626 of 247,206), appearing in 263 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pink Himalayan Salt so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pink Himalayan Salt appears in 263 products (#1,626 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pink Himalayan 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.