Sodium Caseinate
Sodium Caseinate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 6,068 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Caseinate appears in 6,068 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.
- 6,068
- catalogued products
- #182
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,088
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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 Caseinate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#182 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #182
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Mean relative depth 56% across 6,068 parsed labels, slot 18.9 on average. Sodium Caseinate 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 this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
56% 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 Caseinate as the trigger. Open records such as 100% Mass Gainer Chocolate Fudge Brownie; 100% Whey Protein Banana Cream; 100% whey protein blend and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 82.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 56% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
56% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 6045 of 6056 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Caseinate
Across the 6,068 products on this site that list Sodium Caseinate, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 4x more often with Sodium Caseinate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Caseinate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 1,083 | 17.8% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 939 | 15.5% | 1.4% |
| Sucralose | 882 | 14.5% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 764 | 12.6% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 695 | 11.5% | 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
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, 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 Caseinate
Products Containing Sodium Caseinate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 6,068 indexed products containing Sodium Caseinate:
High-volume peers for Sodium Caseinate beside “Cottonseed”
Top-decile company for Sodium Caseinate: 6,068 listings averaging 82.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cottonseed; Dehydrated Soy Sauce; Beta Carotene.
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 Caseinate evidence
6,068 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Caseinate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Caseinate 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. Open a peer record
- 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.
Sodium Caseinate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Caseinate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
56% 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 Caseinate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sodium Caseinate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Caseinate? ▼
Sodium Caseinate ranks in the top decile by product count (#182 of 247,206), appearing in 6,068 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Sodium Caseinate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sodium Caseinate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, drying agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, solvent or vehicle, stabilizer or thickener, texturizer in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Caseinate). 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.