Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 12,211 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate appears in 12,211 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.
- 12,211
- catalogued products
- #92
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,765
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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 Acid Pyrophosphate: top-decile catalog footprint (#92 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #92
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 22.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4707 of 12211 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 donut; 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx; 1-2-3 gluten free, divinely decadent, silky & rich brownies baking mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate 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.
4707 of 12,211 linked records have some flagged component
All 12211 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
Across the 12,211 products on this site that list Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 12.9x more often with Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 2,209 | 18.1% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 1,612 | 13.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,498 | 12.3% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 1,432 | 11.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,236 | 10.1% | 3.4% |
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
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
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 Pyrophosphate
Products Containing Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
16 busy labels from the 12,211 indexed products that list Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate:
High-volume peers for Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate beside “Coconut Oil”
Top-decile company for Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate: 12,211 listings averaging 84.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Coconut Oil; Soybean; Black Pepper.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
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 Pyrophosphate evidence
Use the 12,211-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Questions readers ask about Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
Does Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. 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 Pyrophosphate? ▼
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#92 of 247,206), appearing in 12,211 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate do in food? ▼
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, dough strengthener, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavoring agent or adjuvant, flour treating agent, formulation aid, leavening agent, oxidizing or reducing agent, sequestrant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate). 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.