Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives

Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives appears in 117 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 Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives appears in 117 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.

117
catalogued products
#2,821
usage rank of 247,206
40
named brands represented
78%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 52 of 117 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Aioli; Bacon And Cheddar Dip, Bacon And Cheddar; Better Valu, Thousand Island Dressing to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

52 of 117 linked records have some flagged component

All 116 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.

High-volume listing for Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives - usage rank #2,821

Usage rank
#2,821
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 12 others that also appear in exactly 117 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
78%
Mean relative depth 78% across 117 parsed labels, slot 15.5 on average. Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives 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 else is usually in the same product as Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives

Across the 117 products on this site that list Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.9x more often with Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +10ppRed 40+10ppCaramel Coloring: +9.7ppCaramel Coloring+9.7ppYellow 5: +1.2ppYellow 5+1.2ppBlue 1: +1.8ppBlue 1+1.8ppTitanium Dioxide: +3ppTitanium Dioxide+3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Red 40
10pp
Caramel Coloring
9.7pp
Yellow 5
1.2pp
Blue 1
1.8pp
Titanium Dioxide
3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives products Share of all products
Red 40 18 15.4% 5.4%
Caramel Coloring 18 15.4% 5.7%
Yellow 5 7 6% 4.8%
Blue 1 7 6% 4.2%
Titanium Dioxide 6 5.1% 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.

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 Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives

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 050100150 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives
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.

High-volume peers for Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives beside “Added As A Dough Conditioner”

Top-decile company for Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives: 117 listings averaging 88.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added As A Dough Conditioner · Beetroot Red · Bifidobacterium Bb-12.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Next steps from the Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives page

117 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives with a peer such as “Added As A Dough Conditioner” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives — common follow-ups

Does Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives?

Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,821 of 247,206), appearing in 117 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives appears in 117 products (#2,821 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate As Preservatives). 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.