Potassium Sorbate As Preservative
Potassium Sorbate As Preservative appears in 123 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 As Preservative appears in 123 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.
- 123
- catalogued products
- #2,727
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 84%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 42 of 123 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ajo Garlic Paste; Ajo Pasta Garlic Paste; Alacena, yellow hot pepper sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Potassium Sorbate As Preservative itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Salted-snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
42 of 123 linked records have some flagged component
All 113 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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 As Preservative - usage rank #2,727
- Usage rank
- #2,727
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 123 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 84%
- Averaged label depth puts Potassium Sorbate As Preservative near the end of the captured list (84% of list length, mean slot 14.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Potassium Sorbate As Preservative
Across the 123 products on this site that list Potassium Sorbate As Preservative, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.6x more often with Potassium Sorbate As Preservative than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Sorbate As Preservative products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 14.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 10.6% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 8 | 6.5% | 1.3% |
| Aspartame | 7 | 5.7% | 0.9% |
| Blue 1 | 6 | 4.9% | 4.2% |
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 As Preservative
Products Containing Potassium Sorbate As Preservative
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 123 indexed products containing Potassium Sorbate As Preservative:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bread Crumb”)
Potassium Sorbate As Preservative sits among other busy catalog rows (123 products, mean score 93.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Bread Crumb”, “Clam Broth”, “Cracked Black Pepper”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Sorbate As Preservative record
123 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potassium Sorbate As Preservative are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Potassium Sorbate As Preservative to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Potassium Sorbate As Preservative 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 As Preservative. 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 As Preservative? ▼
Potassium Sorbate As Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,727 of 247,206), appearing in 123 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potassium Sorbate As Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potassium Sorbate As Preservative appears in 123 products (#2,727 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Sorbate As Preservative). 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.