Potasium Sorbate
Potasium Sorbate appears in 22 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
Potasium Sorbate appears in 22 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.
- 22
- catalogued products
- #8,787
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 7 of 22 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 6-Inch Florentine Feta Tomato Fresh Baked Quiches, Feta Tomato; Amazonas rainforest product, green olives in brine; Barnabeu, olives stuffed with anchovies to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Potasium Sorbate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
7 of 22 linked records have some flagged component
All 22 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.
High-volume listing for Potasium Sorbate - usage rank #8,787
- Usage rank
- #8,787
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 22 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Mean relative depth 75% across 22 parsed labels, slot 13.9 on average. Potasium Sorbate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
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 Potasium Sorbate
Products Containing Potasium Sorbate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 22 indexed products containing Potasium Sorbate:
High-volume peers for Potasium Sorbate
High-volume peers for Potasium Sorbate: 22 products, mean screening score 87.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Potasium Sorbate page
Start from Potasium Sorbate's 22 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Potasium Sorbate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- 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 Potasium Sorbate
Does Potasium Sorbate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Potasium Sorbate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potasium Sorbate? ▼
Potasium Sorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,787 of 247,206), appearing in 22 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potasium Sorbate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potasium Sorbate appears in 22 products (#8,787 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potasium Sorbate). 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.