Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate
Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate appears in 173 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 Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate appears in 173 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.
- 173
- catalogued products
- #2,133
- usage rank of 247,206
- 54
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
63.6% 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 Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate as the trigger. Open records such as 1883 Sauce; 3 Layered Assorted Gelatin Desserts; Balsamic vinaigrette premium dressing and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 90.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 72% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
63.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 166 of 173 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.
High-volume listing for Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate - usage rank #2,133
- Usage rank
- #2,133
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 173 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 173 products listing it (mean slot 13.1). Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate 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.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate
Across the 173 products on this site that list Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate, 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 80 shows up about 28.9x more often with Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 80 | 65 | 37.6% | 1.3% |
| Sucralose | 18 | 10.4% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 7.5% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 7.5% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 8 | 4.6% | 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 Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate
Products Containing Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate
High-volume slice (16 of 173) for products naming Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Acacia Fiber”)
High-volume peers for Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate: 173 products, mean screening score 90.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Acacia Fiber · As Color · Beetroot Powder. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate page
Use the 173-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate with a peer such as “Acacia Fiber” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
63.6% 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 Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate? ▼
Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,133 of 247,206), appearing in 173 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate appears in 173 products (#2,133 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Benzoate & Potassium Sorbate). 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.