Potassium Phosphate Dibasic

Potassium Phosphate Dibasic appears in 34 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 Phosphate Dibasic appears in 34 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.

34
catalogued products
#6,452
usage rank of 247,206
12
named brands represented
53%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

52.9% 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 Phosphate Dibasic as the trigger. Open records such as Bang Blue Razz; Bang sour heads; Barley Milk Tea and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 53% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

52.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 33 of 33 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 Phosphate Dibasic: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,452 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,452
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 125 others that also appear in exactly 34 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
53%
Mean relative depth 53% across 34 parsed labels, slot 15.1 on average. Potassium Phosphate Dibasic tends to sit in the lower 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Potassium Phosphate Dibasic

Across the 34 products on this site that list Potassium Phosphate Dibasic, 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. Sucralose shows up about 18.5x more often with Potassium Phosphate Dibasic than in the catalogue at large.

Sucralose: +47.3ppSucralose+47.3ppAcesulfame Potassium: +24.7ppAcesulfame Potassium+24.7ppCarrageenan: +10.2ppCarrageenan+10.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Potassium Phosphate Dibasic products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sucralose
47.3pp
Acesulfame Potassium
24.7pp
Carrageenan
10.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Potassium Phosphate Dibasic products Share of all products
Sucralose 17 50% 2.7%
Acesulfame Potassium 9 26.5% 1.8%
Carrageenan 5 14.7% 4.5%

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 Phosphate Dibasic

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 60708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Potassium Phosphate Dibasic
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Potassium Phosphate Dibasic: 34 listings averaging 87.4/100.

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 Phosphate Dibasic record

Start from Potassium Phosphate Dibasic's 34 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Potassium Phosphate Dibasic and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read safety signals when Potassium Phosphate Dibasic sits in heavily flagged products?

52.9% 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 Phosphate Dibasic is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Phosphate Dibasic?

Potassium Phosphate Dibasic ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Potassium Phosphate Dibasic so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potassium Phosphate Dibasic appears in 34 products (#6,452 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Phosphate Dibasic). 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.