Sodium Acetate
Sodium Acetate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 587 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Acetate appears in 587 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 587
- catalogued products
- #951
- usage rank of 247,206
- 193
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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 Acetate: top-decile catalog footprint (#951 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #951
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 587 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 587 products listing it (mean slot 16.0). Sodium Acetate 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.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
60.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sodium Acetate as the trigger. Open records such as 10 Slice White Bread; 11.00Oz Cra Cool Ranch; All Dressed Flavored Potato Chips, All Dressed and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 81.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 66% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
60.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 557 of 586 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Acetate
Across the 587 products on this site that list Sodium Acetate, 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 10.7x more often with Sodium Acetate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Acetate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 151 | 25.7% | 2.4% |
| Red 40 | 87 | 14.8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 78 | 13.3% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 76 | 12.9% | 4.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 47 | 8% | 5.7% |
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.
Function
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT
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 Acetate
Products Containing Sodium Acetate
High-volume slice (16 of 587) for products naming Sodium Acetate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Condensed Skim Milk”)
Sodium Acetate sits among other busy catalog rows (587 products, mean score 81.2/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Condensed Skim Milk; Enriched Pasta; Beet Juice. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Sodium Acetate record
Use the 587-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Acetate 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. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Sodium Acetate
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Acetate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
60.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sodium Acetate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sodium Acetate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Acetate? ▼
Sodium Acetate ranks in the top decile by product count (#951 of 247,206), appearing in 587 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Sodium Acetate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sodium Acetate is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, flavoring agent or adjuvant, ph control agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Acetate). 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.