Sodium Diacetate
Sodium Diacetate carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 5,379 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Sodium Diacetate appears in 5,379 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” 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.
- 5,379
- catalogued products
- #200
- usage rank of 247,206
- 924
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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 Diacetate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#200 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #200
- 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
- 68%
- Mean relative depth 68% across 5,379 parsed labels, slot 16.9 on average. Sodium Diacetate 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
71.5% 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 Diacetate as the trigger. Open records such as 1 lb. Hot dog; 10 Beef Franks; 10 Original Franks and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 68% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
71.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 5265 of 5368 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 Diacetate
Across the 5,379 products on this site that list Sodium Diacetate, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 20.5x more often with Sodium Diacetate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Diacetate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 2,653 | 49.3% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 587 | 10.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 533 | 9.9% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 371 | 6.9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 324 | 6% | 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
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Diacetate
Products Containing Sodium Diacetate
High-volume slice (16 of 5,379) for products naming Sodium Diacetate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Polysorbate 80”)
Sodium Diacetate sits among other busy catalog rows (5,379 products, mean score 83.8/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Polysorbate 80; Disodium Phosphate; Fructose. 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.
Next steps from the Sodium Diacetate page
Use the 5,379-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Diacetate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Sodium Diacetate next to “Disodium Phosphate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Sodium Diacetate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Diacetate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
71.5% 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 Diacetate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sodium Diacetate scores 5/5 on this site's screening scale and CSPI lists it as "Safe" 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 Diacetate? ▼
Sodium Diacetate ranks in the top decile by product count (#200 of 247,206), appearing in 5,379 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Sodium Diacetate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sodium Diacetate is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant 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 Diacetate). 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.