Salt And Enzymes

Salt And Enzymes appears in 746 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

Salt And Enzymes appears in 746 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.

746
catalogued products
#804
usage rank of 247,206
218
named brands represented
73%
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: 155 of 746 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Natural Cheese Made With Part Skim Milk, Mozzarella; 3 Cheese Blend; 6 Breaded Chicken Parmagliana Patties with Tomato Sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Salt And Enzymes itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

155 of 746 linked records have some flagged component

All 725 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.

Salt And Enzymes sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#804 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#804
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
73%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 746 products listing it (mean slot 14.5). Salt And Enzymes 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.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Salt And Enzymes

Across the 746 products on this site that list Salt And Enzymes, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 4.3x more often with Salt And Enzymes than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +7.9ppSodium Nitrite+7.9ppCaramel Coloring: -0.2ppCaramel Coloring-0.2ppBHT: +4.1ppBHT+4.1ppBHA: +4.3ppBHA+4.3ppCarrageenan: -1.8ppCarrageenan-1.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Salt And Enzymes products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
7.9pp
Caramel Coloring
-0.2pp
BHT
4.1pp
BHA
4.3pp
Carrageenan
-1.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Salt And Enzymes products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 77 10.3% 2.4%
Caramel Coloring 41 5.5% 5.7%
BHT 39 5.2% 1.1%
BHA 37 5% 0.7%
Carrageenan 20 2.7% 4.5%

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 Salt And Enzymes

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 5060708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Salt And Enzymes
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Salt And Enzymes vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Salt And Enzymes: 746 products, mean screening score 94.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Green Tea Extract · Natural Spring Water · Spice Extractive. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Salt And Enzymes record

Start from Salt And Enzymes's 746 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Salt And Enzymes 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. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Salt And Enzymes — common follow-ups

Does Salt And Enzymes 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 Salt And Enzymes. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Salt And Enzymes?

Salt And Enzymes ranks in the top decile by product count (#804 of 247,206), appearing in 746 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Salt And Enzymes so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Salt And Enzymes appears in 746 products (#804 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Salt And Enzymes). 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.