Preservative Sodium Benzoate
Preservative Sodium Benzoate appears in 19 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 Sodium Benzoate appears in 19 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.
- 19
- catalogued products
- #9,730
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 93%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Preservative Sodium Benzoate - usage rank #9,730
- Usage rank
- #9,730
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 368 others that also appear in exactly 19 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 93%
- Mean relative depth 93% across 19 parsed labels, slot 9.7 on average. Preservative Sodium Benzoate 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Preservative Sodium Benzoate spans 7 named brands and is led by the Undefined group. Start with Amba Haldar Fresh Turmeric Pickle; Berry Kerda Pickle In Oil; Carrot Pickle when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
7 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 11 of 18 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.
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 Sodium Benzoate
Products Containing Preservative Sodium Benzoate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 19 indexed products containing Preservative Sodium Benzoate:
High-volume peers for Preservative Sodium Benzoate
High-volume peers for Preservative Sodium Benzoate: 19 products, mean screening score 98.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Sodium Benzoate page
Use the 19-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Preservative Sodium Benzoate 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
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Preservative Sodium Benzoate
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Preservative Sodium Benzoate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Preservative Sodium Benzoate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,730 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Preservative Sodium Benzoate? ▼
Preservative Sodium Benzoate ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,730 of 247,206), appearing in 19 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Preservative Sodium Benzoate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Preservative Sodium Benzoate appears in 19 products (#9,730 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Preservative Sodium Benzoate). 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.