Sodium Acid Phosphate
Sodium Acid Phosphate appears in 42 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 Acid Phosphate appears in 42 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.
- 42
- catalogued products
- #5,603
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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: 18 of 42 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare AIR FRYER READY CRISPY WINGS; Banana Cream Pie; Banana Cream Pie, Banana Cream to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Acid Phosphate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
18 of 42 linked records have some flagged component
All 42 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.
Sodium Acid Phosphate: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,603 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,603
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 93 others that also appear in exactly 42 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Acid Phosphate in the lower half of the list (71% of list length, mean slot 26.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Sodium Acid Phosphate
Across the 42 products on this site that list Sodium Acid Phosphate, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 4.6x more often with Sodium Acid Phosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Acid Phosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 26.2% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 9 | 21.4% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 9 | 21.4% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 8 | 19% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 8 | 19% | 4.8% |
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 Acid Phosphate
Products Containing Sodium Acid Phosphate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 42 indexed products containing Sodium Acid Phosphate:
Sodium Acid Phosphate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Sodium Acid Phosphate: 42 listings averaging 77.1/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Sodium Acid Phosphate evidence
Use the 42-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Acid Phosphate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Sodium Acid Phosphate
Does Sodium Acid Phosphate 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 Acid Phosphate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Acid Phosphate? ▼
Sodium Acid Phosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,603 of 247,206), appearing in 42 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Acid Phosphate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Acid Phosphate appears in 42 products (#5,603 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Acid Phosphate). 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.