Sodium Benzoate Preservative
Sodium Benzoate Preservative appears in 140 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 Preservative appears in 140 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.
- 140
- catalogued products
- #2,468
- usage rank of 247,206
- 45
- 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
67.1% 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 Preservative as the trigger. Open records such as Apple Crumb Coffee Cake; Baked apple crisp; Cake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 70.1/100 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.
67.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 139 of 140 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 Preservative - usage rank #2,468
- Usage rank
- #2,468
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 140 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Mean relative depth 71% across 140 parsed labels, slot 31.0 on average. Sodium Benzoate Preservative tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Benzoate Preservative
Across the 140 products on this site that list Sodium Benzoate 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 6.9x more often with Sodium Benzoate Preservative than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Benzoate Preservative products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 46 | 32.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 39 | 27.9% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 33 | 23.6% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 33 | 23.6% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 29 | 20.7% | 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 Benzoate Preservative
Products Containing Sodium Benzoate Preservative
High-volume slice (16 of 140) for products naming Sodium Benzoate Preservative:
Sodium Benzoate Preservative vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Sodium Benzoate Preservative sits among other busy catalog rows (140 products, mean score 70.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Bleached · Carbonated Filtered Water · Cooked White Rice. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Sodium Benzoate Preservative evidence
140 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Benzoate Preservative are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Benzoate Preservative and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Sodium Benzoate Preservative with a peer such as “Bleached” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Benzoate Preservative sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
67.1% 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 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 Preservative? ▼
Sodium Benzoate Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,468 of 247,206), appearing in 140 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Benzoate Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Benzoate Preservative appears in 140 products (#2,468 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Benzoate 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.