Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative
Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative appears in 83 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 Added As A Preservative appears in 83 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.
- 83
- catalogued products
- #3,577
- usage rank of 247,206
- 31
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 32 of 83 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Barbecue sauce; Cajun Shrimp Cakes; Caramel puffcorn, caramel to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
32 of 83 linked records have some flagged component
All 82 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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 Benzoate Added As A Preservative sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,577 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,577
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 83 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Mean relative depth 75% across 83 parsed labels, slot 18.7 on average. Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Added As A Preservative
Across the 83 products on this site that list Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative, 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 4x more often with Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 19 | 22.9% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 6% | 5.4% |
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.
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 Added As A Preservative
Products Containing Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative
16 busy labels from the 83 indexed products that list Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative:
High-volume peers for Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative beside “Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3”
Top-decile company for Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative: 83 listings averaging 94.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3”, “Blue 1 & 2”, “Brominated Soybean Oil”.
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.
Next steps from the Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative page
83 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative — common follow-ups
Does Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative 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 Benzoate Added As A Preservative. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative? ▼
Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,577 of 247,206), appearing in 83 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative appears in 83 products (#3,577 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Benzoate Added As A Preservative). 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.