Potassium Acetate
Potassium Acetate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 294 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Acetate appears in 294 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 294
- catalogued products
- #1,505
- usage rank of 247,206
- 46
- 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.
High-volume listing for Potassium Acetate - usage rank #1,505
- Usage rank
- #1,505
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 294 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Mean relative depth 58% across 294 parsed labels, slot 10.3 on average. Potassium Acetate 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 to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
83% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Potassium Acetate as the trigger. Open records such as 1 lb. Hot dog; Applewood Smoked Master Carve Half Ham; Bacon Wrapped Chicken Tender Filet and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 86.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 58% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
83% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 284 of 290 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
What else is usually in the same product as Potassium Acetate
Across the 294 products on this site that list Potassium Acetate, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 32.5x more often with Potassium Acetate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Acetate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 229 | 77.9% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 40 | 13.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 2.7% | 5.7% |
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
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Acetate
Products Containing Potassium Acetate
High-volume slice (16 of 294) for products naming Potassium Acetate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cooked Black Beans”)
Top-decile company for Potassium Acetate: 294 listings averaging 86.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Cooked Black Beans”, “Hypromellose”, “Koji”.
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.
Using the Potassium Acetate evidence
294 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potassium Acetate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Potassium Acetate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Potassium Acetate
How should I read safety signals when Potassium Acetate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
83% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Potassium Acetate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Potassium Acetate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Acetate? ▼
Potassium Acetate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,505 of 247,206), appearing in 294 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Potassium Acetate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Potassium Acetate is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Acetate). 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.