Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative
Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative appears in 274 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 As A Preservative appears in 274 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.
- 274
- catalogued products
- #1,573
- usage rank of 247,206
- 102
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
58% 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 As A Preservative as the trigger. Open records such as Achiote condimentado; Aloe Vera Drink Mango; Antonella, Salsa & Cilantro Semi-Soft Cheese and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 93.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 71% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
58% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 250 of 269 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.
Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,573 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,573
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 274 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 274 products listing it (mean slot 15.9). Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative 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 As A Preservative
Across the 274 products on this site that list Sodium Benzoate 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 8.7x more often with Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 136 | 49.6% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 13 | 4.7% | 1.3% |
| Carrageenan | 10 | 3.6% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 2.6% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 2.6% | 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 As A Preservative
Products Containing Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 274 indexed products containing Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative:
Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative: 274 products, mean screening score 93.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Agave Inulin · Low Moisture Mozzarella Cheese · Orange Juice From Concentrate. 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.
Using the Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative evidence
Use the 274-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative 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
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
58% 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 As A Preservative 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 As A Preservative? ▼
Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,573 of 247,206), appearing in 274 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative appears in 274 products (#1,573 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Benzoate 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.