Potassium Acid Tartrate
Potassium Acid Tartrate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 29 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Acid Tartrate appears in 29 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.
- 29
- catalogued products
- #7,222
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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.
Potassium Acid Tartrate: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,222 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,222
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 199 others that also appear in exactly 29 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Mean relative depth 68% across 29 parsed labels, slot 15.3 on average. Potassium Acid Tartrate 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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potassium Acid Tartrate spans 14 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Baked Wheat Cracker With Chocolate; Baraku Dora Yaki, Baked Red Bean Cake; Belgian Boys, Choco Stick Chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 28 of 29 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.
Function
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT
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 Acid Tartrate
Products Containing Potassium Acid Tartrate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 29 indexed products containing Potassium Acid Tartrate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Potassium Acid Tartrate sits among other busy catalog rows (29 products, mean score 97.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Potassium Acid Tartrate record
Start from Potassium Acid Tartrate's 29 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Potassium Acid Tartrate 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. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Potassium Acid Tartrate
What do the source ratings say about Potassium Acid Tartrate? ▼
Potassium Acid Tartrate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 17.2% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Acid Tartrate? ▼
Potassium Acid Tartrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Potassium Acid Tartrate do in food? ▼
Potassium Acid Tartrate is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, nutrient supplement, ph control agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Acid Tartrate). 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.