Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate appears in 5,937 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 Aluminum Phosphate appears in 5,937 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.
- 5,937
- catalogued products
- #185
- usage rank of 247,206
- 784
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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: 2832 of 5937 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 donut; 1/4 Sheet White Cake With Colored Icing; 10 Flour Tortillas to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Aluminum 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.
2832 of 5,937 linked records have some flagged component
All 5912 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 Aluminum Phosphate: top-decile catalog footprint (#185 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #185
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Aluminum Phosphate in the lower half of the list (58% of list length, mean slot 22.4). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
Across the 5,937 products on this site that list Sodium Aluminum 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 13.6x more often with Sodium Aluminum Phosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Aluminum Phosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 1,133 | 19.1% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 915 | 15.4% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 905 | 15.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 803 | 13.5% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 602 | 10.1% | 4.2% |
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 Aluminum Phosphate
Products Containing Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
16 busy labels from the 5,937 indexed products that list Sodium Aluminum Phosphate:
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Sodium Aluminum Phosphate: 5,937 listings averaging 80.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Ginger”, “Cottonseed”, “Dehydrated Soy Sauce”.
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.
Next steps from the Sodium Aluminum Phosphate page
Start from Sodium Aluminum Phosphate's 5,937 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Aluminum Phosphate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Sodium Aluminum 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 Aluminum 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 Aluminum Phosphate? ▼
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#185 of 247,206), appearing in 5,937 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Aluminum Phosphate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Aluminum Phosphate appears in 5,937 products (#185 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Aluminum 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.