Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid
Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid appears in 154 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 Sorbic Acid appears in 154 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.
- 154
- catalogued products
- #2,319
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
61% 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 Sorbate And Sorbic Acid as the trigger. Open records such as 7-eleven fresh to go, football iced sugar cookie; Bakery fresh goodness, s'mores brownies; Blue Bird Bakeries, Frosted Donuts and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 75.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 87% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
61% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 153 of 154 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.
High-volume listing for Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid - usage rank #2,319
- Usage rank
- #2,319
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 154 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 87%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 154 products listing it (mean slot 39.6). Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Sorbic Acid
Across the 154 products on this site that list Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 38.9x more often with Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 84 | 54.5% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 46 | 29.9% | 5.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 44 | 28.6% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 35 | 22.7% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 27 | 17.5% | 5.4% |
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.
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 Sorbic Acid
Products Containing Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 154 indexed products containing Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid:
Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid: 154 products, mean screening score 75.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural And Artificial Butter Flavor · Canola Lecithin · Cassava Starch. 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.
Next steps from the Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid page
Use the 154-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid 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. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
61% 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 Sorbate And Sorbic Acid is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid? ▼
Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,319 of 247,206), appearing in 154 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid appears in 154 products (#2,319 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Sorbate And Sorbic Acid). 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.