Sodium Erythorbate
Sodium Erythorbate carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 7,328 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Sodium Erythorbate appears in 7,328 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.
- 7,328
- catalogued products
- #159
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,207
- 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 Erythorbate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#159 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #159
- 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
- 73%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Erythorbate in the lower half of the list (73% of list length, mean slot 16.1). 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
92.1% 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 Erythorbate as the trigger. Open records such as 1 lb. Hot dog; 1/4 Pound Beef Franks; 10 Beef Franks and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 73% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
92.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 6530 of 7206 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 Erythorbate
Across the 7,328 products on this site that list Sodium Erythorbate, 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 35.4x more often with Sodium Erythorbate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Erythorbate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 6,218 | 84.9% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 640 | 8.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 577 | 7.9% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrate | 435 | 5.9% | 0.2% |
| BHA | 279 | 3.8% | 0.7% |
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
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
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 Erythorbate
Products Containing Sodium Erythorbate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 7,328 indexed products containing Sodium Erythorbate:
Sodium Erythorbate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Sodium Erythorbate: 7,328 listings averaging 83/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Coconut; Palm; Acesulfame Potassium.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Sodium Erythorbate page
Start from Sodium Erythorbate's 7,328 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Erythorbate 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. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sodium Erythorbate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Erythorbate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
92.1% 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 Erythorbate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sodium Erythorbate 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 Erythorbate? ▼
Sodium Erythorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#159 of 247,206), appearing in 7,328 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 Erythorbate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sodium Erythorbate is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, antioxidant, color or coloring adjunct, dough strengthener, flour treating agent, oxidizing or reducing agent, processing aid, surface-finishing agent 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 Erythorbate). 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.