Sodium
Sodium appears in 721 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
Sodium appears in 721 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.
- 721
- catalogued products
- #826
- usage rank of 247,206
- 378
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 257 of 721 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1st Phorm, Megawatt Strawberry Lemonade; 26/30 Ct Peeled And Deveined Shrimp; 6 Submarine Rolls to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Undefined supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
257 of 721 linked records have some flagged component
All 678 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 Sodium - usage rank #826
- Usage rank
- #826
- 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
- 61%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 721 products listing it (mean slot 20.4). Sodium 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 Sodium
Across the 721 products on this site that list Sodium, 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. Sucralose shows up about 3.6x more often with Sodium than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 71 | 9.8% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 54 | 7.5% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 37 | 5.1% | 5.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 36 | 5% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 35 | 4.9% | 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 Sodium
Products Containing Sodium
High-volume slice (16 of 721) for products naming Sodium:
High-volume peers for Sodium beside “Jalapenos”
High-volume peers for Sodium: 721 products, mean screening score 90.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Jalapenos · Chipotle Pepper · Blackberries. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Sodium page
Start from Sodium's 721 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Sodium next to “Chipotle Pepper” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Sodium 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 Sodium. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium? ▼
Sodium ranks in the top decile by product count (#826 of 247,206), appearing in 721 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium appears in 721 products (#826 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium). 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.