Potassium
Potassium appears in 407 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
Potassium appears in 407 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.
- 407
- catalogued products
- #1,181
- usage rank of 247,206
- 270
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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: 150 of 407 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Bacon Bits; 100% Orange Juice; 1st Phorm, Megawatt Strawberry Lemonade to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Potassium 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.
150 of 407 linked records have some flagged component
All 366 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.
Potassium: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,181 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,181
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 407 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 407 products listing it (mean slot 16.0). Potassium usually falls in the lower 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Potassium
Across the 407 products on this site that list Potassium, 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 7x more often with Potassium than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 77 | 18.9% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 24 | 5.9% | 5.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 21 | 5.2% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 20 | 4.9% | 5.4% |
| Trans Fat | 18 | 4.4% | 0% |
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 Potassium
Products Containing Potassium
High-volume slice (16 of 407) for products naming Potassium:
High-volume peers for Potassium beside “Chia Seed”
Potassium sits among other busy catalog rows (407 products, mean score 89.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Chia Seed”, “Water Chestnuts”, “Beans”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Potassium page
Use the 407-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Potassium next to “Water Chestnuts” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Potassium 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 Potassium. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium? ▼
Potassium ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,181 of 247,206), appearing in 407 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potassium so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potassium appears in 407 products (#1,181 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium). 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.