Sodium Bisulfite
Sodium Bisulfite carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 1,422 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Bisulfite appears in 1,422 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 1,422
- catalogued products
- #531
- usage rank of 247,206
- 323
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
Sodium Bisulfite sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#531 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #531
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 1,422 parsed labels, slot 14.3 on average. Sodium Bisulfite tends to sit in the lower half of the 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 this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 422 of 1422 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Juice; 100% Juice; 100% Juice Lemon Juice to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Bisulfite itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
422 of 1,422 linked records have some flagged component
All 1394 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Bisulfite
Across the 1,422 products on this site that list Sodium Bisulfite, 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 2x more often with Sodium Bisulfite than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Bisulfite products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 136 | 9.6% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 122 | 8.6% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 96 | 6.8% | 1.1% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 48 | 3.4% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 6 | 47 | 3.3% | 3.4% |
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.
Function
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
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 Bisulfite
Products Containing Sodium Bisulfite
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,422 indexed products containing Sodium Bisulfite:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Potato”)
High-volume peers for Sodium Bisulfite: 1,422 products, mean screening score 92.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Potato; Vitamin B5; Organic Coconut Milk. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Sodium Bisulfite page
Start from Sodium Bisulfite's 1,422 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Bisulfite to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Sodium Bisulfite next to “Vitamin B5” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Sodium Bisulfite carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Sodium Bisulfite itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Bisulfite? ▼
Sodium Bisulfite ranks in the top decile by product count (#531 of 247,206), appearing in 1,422 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Bisulfite do in food? ▼
Sodium Bisulfite is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, antioxidant, color or coloring adjunct, dough strengthener, flavoring agent or adjuvant, flour treating agent, formulation aid, processing aid, surface-finishing agent, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Bisulfite). 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.