Potassium Carbonate
Potassium Carbonate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 688 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Carbonate appears in 688 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.
- 688
- catalogued products
- #844
- usage rank of 247,206
- 186
- 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.
Potassium Carbonate: top-decile catalog footprint (#844 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #844
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 688 products listing it (mean slot 21.4). Potassium Carbonate 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.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 254 of 688 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2-minute Noodles; 2-Minute Noodles Authentic Indian Noodles; 4 Cherry Bakewell Tarts to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Potassium Carbonate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
254 of 688 linked records have some flagged component
All 677 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Potassium Carbonate
Across the 688 products on this site that list Potassium Carbonate, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 4x more often with Potassium Carbonate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Carbonate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 156 | 22.7% | 5.7% |
| TBHQ | 86 | 12.5% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 42 | 6.1% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 21 | 3.1% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 14 | 2% | 4.8% |
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, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
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 Carbonate
Products Containing Potassium Carbonate
16 busy labels from the 688 indexed products that list Potassium Carbonate:
High-volume peers for Potassium Carbonate beside “Granola”
Top-decile company for Potassium Carbonate: 688 listings averaging 95/100. Nearest count peers include “Granola”, “Inositol”, “Blueberry 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.
Using the Potassium Carbonate evidence
Start from Potassium Carbonate's 688 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium Carbonate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Potassium Carbonate with a peer such as “Granola” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Potassium Carbonate
Does Potassium Carbonate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Potassium Carbonate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Carbonate? ▼
Potassium Carbonate ranks in the top decile by product count (#844 of 247,206), appearing in 688 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Potassium Carbonate do in food? ▼
Potassium Carbonate is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant, leavening agent, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Carbonate). 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.