Preservative - Potassium Sorbate
Preservative - Potassium Sorbate appears in 51 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
Preservative - Potassium Sorbate appears in 51 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.
- 51
- catalogued products
- #4,904
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
94.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Preservative - Potassium Sorbate as the trigger. Open records such as 8 Gingerbread Cookies To Decorate; Clever Cookie, Rudolph Cookie Decorating Kit; Clever Cookie, Sugar Skull Cookies and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 9.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 62% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
94.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 50 of 51 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.
Preservative - Potassium Sorbate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,904 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,904
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 66 others that also appear in exactly 51 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 51 products listing it (mean slot 27.8). Preservative - Potassium Sorbate usually falls in the lower half of the 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 Preservative - Potassium Sorbate
Across the 51 products on this site that list Preservative - Potassium Sorbate, 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 67.2x more often with Preservative - Potassium Sorbate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Preservative - Potassium Sorbate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 48 | 94.1% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 47 | 92.2% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 43 | 84.3% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 43 | 84.3% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 42 | 82.4% | 4.8% |
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 Preservative - Potassium Sorbate
Products Containing Preservative - Potassium Sorbate
High-volume slice (16 of 51) for products naming Preservative - Potassium Sorbate:
Preservative - Potassium Sorbate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Preservative - Potassium Sorbate: 51 listings averaging 9.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Agar Gum; Aged Red Pepper; Alcohol Denat.
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.
Next steps from the Preservative - Potassium Sorbate page
51 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Preservative - Potassium Sorbate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Preservative - Potassium Sorbate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Preservative - Potassium Sorbate next to “Aged Red Pepper” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Preservative - Potassium Sorbate
How should I read safety signals when Preservative - Potassium Sorbate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
94.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Preservative - Potassium Sorbate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Preservative - Potassium Sorbate? ▼
Preservative - Potassium Sorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,904 of 247,206), appearing in 51 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Preservative - Potassium Sorbate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Preservative - Potassium Sorbate appears in 51 products (#4,904 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Preservative - Potassium Sorbate). 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.