Sodium Chloride
Sodium Chloride carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 940 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Chloride appears in 940 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.
- 940
- catalogued products
- #692
- usage rank of 247,206
- 314
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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 Chloride - usage rank #692
- Usage rank
- #692
- 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
- 54%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Chloride in the lower half of the list (54% of list length, mean slot 16.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 414 of 940 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100 Plus Pro; 100% Grass-Fed Whey Protein Isolate Chocolate Peanut Butter; 100% Whey Protein Vanilla Flavor Protein Powder to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Chloride itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
414 of 940 linked records have some flagged component
All 882 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 Chloride
Across the 940 products on this site that list Sodium Chloride, 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. Sucralose shows up about 8x more often with Sodium Chloride than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Chloride products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 202 | 21.5% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 126 | 13.4% | 4.5% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 122 | 13% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 43 | 4.6% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 43 | 4.6% | 5.7% |
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, ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Chloride
Products Containing Sodium Chloride
16 busy labels from the 940 indexed products that list Sodium Chloride:
High-volume peers for Sodium Chloride beside “Acidity Regulator”
High-volume peers for Sodium Chloride: 940 products, mean screening score 87.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Acidity Regulator”, “Chromium Chloride”, “Pears”. 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 Chloride page
Start from Sodium Chloride's 940 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Chloride before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Sodium Chloride 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 Chloride 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 Chloride? ▼
Sodium Chloride ranks in the top decile by product count (#692 of 247,206), appearing in 940 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Chloride do in food? ▼
Sodium Chloride is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, antimicrobial agent, color or coloring adjunct, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, firming agent, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, nutrient supplement, solvent or vehicle, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Chloride). 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.