Potassium Lactate
Potassium Lactate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,475 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Lactate appears in 2,475 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.
- 2,475
- catalogued products
- #347
- usage rank of 247,206
- 420
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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 Lactate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#347 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #347
- 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
- 47%
- Mean relative depth 47% across 2,475 parsed labels, slot 11.8 on average. Potassium Lactate tends to sit in the upper 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
82% 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 Lactate as the trigger. Open records such as 1 lb. Hot dog; 10 Beef Franks; 10 Original Franks and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 47% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
82% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 2462 of 2474 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 Lactate
Across the 2,475 products on this site that list Potassium Lactate, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 28.5x more often with Potassium Lactate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Lactate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 1,694 | 68.4% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 329 | 13.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 239 | 9.7% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 114 | 4.6% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 86 | 3.5% | 1.1% |
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
FLAVOR ENHANCER
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 Lactate
Products Containing Potassium Lactate
16 busy labels from the 2,475 indexed products that list Potassium Lactate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cherries”)
Top-decile company for Potassium Lactate: 2,475 listings averaging 85.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cherries; Erythritol; Cocoa Mass.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Potassium Lactate record
Use the 2,475-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Potassium Lactate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Potassium Lactate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Potassium Lactate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
82% 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 Lactate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Potassium Lactate 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 Lactate? ▼
Potassium Lactate ranks in the top decile by product count (#347 of 247,206), appearing in 2,475 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Potassium Lactate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Potassium Lactate is recorded as a flavor enhancer 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 Lactate). 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.