Preservative Potassium Sorbate
Preservative Potassium Sorbate appears in 16 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 16 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.
- 16
- catalogued products
- #10,944
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5 of 16 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apple Sugar Free; Farmer cheese; Gnocchi to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Preservative Potassium Sorbate itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
5 of 16 linked records have some flagged component
All 15 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 Preservative Potassium Sorbate - usage rank #10,944
- Usage rank
- #10,944
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 504 others that also appear in exactly 16 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Averaged label depth puts Preservative Potassium Sorbate near the end of the captured list (81% of list length, mean slot 16.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
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 16) for products naming Preservative Potassium Sorbate:
Preservative Potassium Sorbate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Preservative Potassium Sorbate: 16 products, mean screening score 83.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Preservative Potassium Sorbate page
Start from Preservative Potassium Sorbate's 16 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Preservative Potassium Sorbate 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. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Preservative Potassium Sorbate — common follow-ups
Does Preservative Potassium Sorbate 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 Preservative Potassium Sorbate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Preservative Potassium Sorbate? ▼
Preservative Potassium Sorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,944 of 247,206), appearing in 16 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 16 products (#10,944 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.