Sodium 5-inosinate
Sodium 5-inosinate appears in 7 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 5-inosinate appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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.
Sodium 5-inosinate: top-decile catalog footprint (#19,546 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium 5-inosinate in the lower half of the list (68% of list length, mean slot 16.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sodium 5-inosinate spans 1 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Egg Roll With Chicken; Potstickers; Potstickers With Pork when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 7 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 7 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 5-inosinate
Products Containing Sodium 5-inosinate
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Sodium 5-inosinate:
Sodium 5-inosinate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Sodium 5-inosinate: 7 products, mean screening score 96.4/100. 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.
Using the Sodium 5-inosinate evidence
Start from Sodium 5-inosinate's 7 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sodium 5-inosinate and read how the term sits on real packages. 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.
Sodium 5-inosinate — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sodium 5-inosinate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sodium 5-inosinate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#19,546 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium 5-inosinate? ▼
Sodium 5-inosinate ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium 5-inosinate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium 5-inosinate appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium 5-inosinate). 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.