Potassium Chloride
Potassium Chloride carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 6,624 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Certain People Should Avoid.”
Source-backed answer
Potassium Chloride appears in 6,624 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Certain People Should Avoid.” 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.
- 6,624
- catalogued products
- #172
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,025
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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 Chloride sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#172 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #172
- 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
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 6,624 products listing it (mean slot 19.5). Potassium Chloride 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3238 of 6624 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 LA Brea Three Cheese Loaf; 1/2 Pie - Pumpkin; 1/4 Pound Beef Franks to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Potassium Chloride itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3238 of 6,624 linked records have some flagged component
All 6573 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 Chloride
Across the 6,624 products on this site that list Potassium Chloride, 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 3.4x more often with Potassium Chloride than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Chloride products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 1,024 | 15.5% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 993 | 15% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 821 | 12.4% | 2.4% |
| Sucralose | 330 | 5% | 2.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 310 | 4.7% | 2.1% |
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
ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Chloride
Products Containing Potassium Chloride
16 busy labels from the 6,624 indexed products that list Potassium Chloride:
Potassium Chloride vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Potassium Chloride sits among other busy catalog rows (6,624 products, mean score 89.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Lactose”, “Preservatives”, “Whole Wheat Flour”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Chloride evidence
6,624 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potassium Chloride are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Potassium Chloride 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
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Chloride
Does Potassium Chloride 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 Chloride itself carries a CSPI "Certain People Should Avoid" rating 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 Chloride? ▼
Potassium Chloride ranks in the top decile by product count (#172 of 247,206), appearing in 6,624 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Potassium Chloride do in food? ▼
Potassium Chloride is recorded as a enzyme, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, malting or fermenting aid, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Chloride). 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.