Potassium Benzoate
Potassium Benzoate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,822 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Benzoate appears in 2,822 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.
- 2,822
- catalogued products
- #322
- usage rank of 247,206
- 283
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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 Benzoate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#322 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #322
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 2,822 parsed labels, slot 5.7 on average. Potassium Benzoate 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
91.2% 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 Benzoate as the trigger. Open records such as 12 Fl Oz; 7 up zero sugar; 7up Zero Sugar Lemon Lime Soda and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 69.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 50% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
91.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 2809 of 2819 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 Benzoate
Across the 2,822 products on this site that list Potassium Benzoate, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 21.9x more often with Potassium Benzoate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Benzoate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 1,114 | 39.5% | 1.8% |
| Aspartame | 1,075 | 38.1% | 0.9% |
| Caramel Coloring | 932 | 33% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 787 | 27.9% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 568 | 20.1% | 5.4% |
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
ANTIMICROBIAL 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 Benzoate
Products Containing Potassium Benzoate
16 busy labels from the 2,822 indexed products that list Potassium Benzoate:
Potassium Benzoate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Potassium Benzoate: 2,822 listings averaging 69/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Gellan Gum; Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour; Chicken.
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.
What to do with this Potassium Benzoate record
2,822 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potassium Benzoate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium Benzoate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Potassium Benzoate with a peer such as “Gellan Gum” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Potassium Benzoate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
91.2% 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 Benzoate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Potassium Benzoate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Benzoate? ▼
Potassium Benzoate ranks in the top decile by product count (#322 of 247,206), appearing in 2,822 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Potassium Benzoate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Potassium Benzoate is recorded as a antimicrobial agent 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 Benzoate). 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.