Potassium Sulfate
Potassium Sulfate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 30 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Sulfate appears in 30 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.
- 30
- catalogued products
- #7,050
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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 Sulfate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#7,050 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,050
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 171 others that also appear in exactly 30 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Mean relative depth 81% across 30 parsed labels, slot 5.5 on average. Potassium Sulfate tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potassium Sulfate spans 12 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with Basil Potato Gnocchi; Canada Dry Club Soda - 6 PK; Canada dry club soda soft drink when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
12 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 29 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID
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 Sulfate
Products Containing Potassium Sulfate
High-volume slice (16 of 30) for products naming Potassium Sulfate:
Potassium Sulfate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Potassium Sulfate: 30 listings averaging 95.8/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Potassium Sulfate page
Start from Potassium Sulfate's 30 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium Sulfate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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 Sulfate — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Potassium Sulfate? ▼
Potassium Sulfate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 13.3% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potassium Sulfate? ▼
Potassium Sulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,050 of 247,206), appearing in 30 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Potassium Sulfate do in food? ▼
Potassium Sulfate is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, malting or fermenting aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Sulfate). 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.