Potassium Bitartrate
Potassium Bitartrate appears in 68 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 Bitartrate appears in 68 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.
- 68
- catalogued products
- #4,047
- usage rank of 247,206
- 27
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
66.2% 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 Bitartrate as the trigger. Open records such as Brownie Crisp; Brownie crisp; Brownie Crisp and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 74.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 70% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
66.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 66 of 67 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.
Potassium Bitartrate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,047 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,047
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 49 others that also appear in exactly 68 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Averaged label depth puts Potassium Bitartrate in the lower half of the list (70% of list length, mean slot 19.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Potassium Bitartrate
Across the 68 products on this site that list Potassium Bitartrate, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 6.9x more often with Potassium Bitartrate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Bitartrate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 21 | 30.9% | 4.5% |
| Blue 1 | 16 | 23.5% | 4.2% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 14 | 20.6% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 14 | 20.6% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 12 | 17.6% | 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.
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 Bitartrate
Products Containing Potassium Bitartrate
16 busy labels from the 68 indexed products that list Potassium Bitartrate:
Potassium Bitartrate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Potassium Bitartrate: 68 listings averaging 74.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Whole Grain Oat Flour; 2% Or Less Of Modified Cornstarch; Anchovy Puree.
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.
What to do with this Potassium Bitartrate record
Use the 68-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium Bitartrate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Potassium Bitartrate with a peer such as “100% Whole Grain Oat Flour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Potassium Bitartrate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Potassium Bitartrate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
66.2% 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 Bitartrate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Bitartrate? ▼
Potassium Bitartrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,047 of 247,206), appearing in 68 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potassium Bitartrate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potassium Bitartrate appears in 68 products (#4,047 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Bitartrate). 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.