Potassium Iodate
Potassium Iodate carries a source-backed screening score of 1/5 and appears in 949 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Avoid.”
Source-backed answer
Potassium Iodate appears in 949 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “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.
- 949
- catalogued products
- #684
- usage rank of 247,206
- 164
- named brands represented
- 87%
- 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 Iodate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#684 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #684
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 949 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 87%
- Mean relative depth 87% across 949 parsed labels, slot 26.6 on average. Potassium Iodate tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potassium Iodate spans 164 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% light whole wheat; 100% Whole Wheat; 100% Whole Wheat Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
164 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 938 of 946 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Potassium Iodate
Across the 949 products on this site that list Potassium Iodate, 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. Azodicarbonamide shows up about 30.5x more often with Potassium Iodate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Iodate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azodicarbonamide | 58 | 6.1% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 52 | 5.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 29 | 3.1% | 2.4% |
| Sucralose | 18 | 1.9% | 2.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 15 | 1.6% | 1.4% |
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
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING 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 Iodate
Products Containing Potassium Iodate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 949 indexed products containing Potassium Iodate:
Potassium Iodate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Potassium Iodate: 949 products, mean screening score 96.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Pinto Beans; Riboflavin And Folic Acid; Black Tea. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Iodate evidence
Start from Potassium Iodate's 949 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium Iodate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Iodate
What do the source ratings say about Potassium Iodate? ▼
Potassium Iodate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 1/5. CSPI rates it "Avoid." FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 16% 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 Iodate? ▼
Potassium Iodate ranks in the top decile by product count (#684 of 247,206), appearing in 949 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 Iodate do in food? ▼
Potassium Iodate is recorded as a dough strengthener, flour treating agent, malting or fermenting aid, nutrient supplement, oxidizing or reducing agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Iodate). 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.