Sodium Carbonate
Sodium Carbonate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 963 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Carbonate appears in 963 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.
- 963
- catalogued products
- #678
- usage rank of 247,206
- 273
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Sodium Carbonate - usage rank #678
- Usage rank
- #678
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 963 parsed labels, slot 21.3 on average. Sodium Carbonate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 344 of 963 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2-Minute Noodles Authentic Indian Noodles; 365 everyday value, mini corn dogs; 4 Yum Yums to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Carbonate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
344 of 963 linked records have some flagged component
All 953 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 Carbonate
Across the 963 products on this site that list Sodium Carbonate, 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 3.4x more often with Sodium Carbonate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Carbonate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 186 | 19.3% | 5.7% |
| TBHQ | 89 | 9.2% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 62 | 6.4% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 39 | 4% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 30 | 3.1% | 1.3% |
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
ANTIOXIDANT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
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 Carbonate
Products Containing Sodium Carbonate
High-volume slice (16 of 963) for products naming Sodium Carbonate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Zinc Sulfate”)
Sodium Carbonate sits among other busy catalog rows (963 products, mean score 93.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Zinc Sulfate”, “Wine Vinegar”, “Sweetener”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Sodium Carbonate evidence
Start from Sodium Carbonate's 963 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Carbonate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Sodium Carbonate with a peer such as “Zinc Sulfate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sodium Carbonate — common follow-ups
Does Sodium Carbonate 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 Carbonate 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 Carbonate? ▼
Sodium Carbonate ranks in the top decile by product count (#678 of 247,206), appearing in 963 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Carbonate do in food? ▼
Sodium Carbonate is recorded as a antioxidant, curing or pickling agent, flavoring agent or adjuvant, ph control agent, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Carbonate). 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.