Smoked Sea Salt
Smoked Sea Salt appears in 61 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
Smoked Sea Salt appears in 61 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.
- 61
- catalogued products
- #4,349
- usage rank of 247,206
- 28
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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.
Smoked Sea Salt: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,349 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,349
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 61 products, listed in more products than 98.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 61 parsed labels, slot 12.6 on average. Smoked Sea Salt tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Smoked Sea Salt spans 28 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 1868 Organic Grilling Spiced Maple Marinade; 38% milk chocolate, creamy caramel, cinnamon & a touch of smoked fleur de sel; Alderwood Smoked Sea Salt when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
28 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 27 of 54 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 Smoked Sea Salt
Products Containing Smoked Sea Salt
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 61 indexed products containing Smoked Sea Salt:
Smoked Sea Salt vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Smoked Sea Salt sits among other busy catalog rows (61 products, mean score 99.7/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural And Artificial Flavours; Basil Leaves; Brazils. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Smoked Sea Salt page
Start from Smoked Sea Salt's 61 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Smoked Sea Salt to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Smoked Sea Salt
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Smoked Sea Salt? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Smoked Sea Salt, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,349 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Smoked Sea Salt? ▼
Smoked Sea Salt ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,349 of 247,206), appearing in 61 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Smoked Sea Salt so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Smoked Sea Salt appears in 61 products (#4,349 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Smoked Sea Salt). 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.