Sodium Fluoride
Sodium Fluoride carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 7 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Fluoride appears in 7 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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 Fluoride: top-decile catalog footprint (#19,546 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Fluoride in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 3.6). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
57.1% 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 Fluoride as the trigger. Open records such as Cb12 Boost Gum; Purified Water; Spring Water With Fluoride and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 52% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 4 of 7 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.
Function
STABILIZER OR THICKENER
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 7 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 Fluoride
Products Containing Sodium Fluoride
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Sodium Fluoride:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Sodium Fluoride: 7 products, mean screening score 85/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Sodium Fluoride page
7 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Fluoride are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Fluoride to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sodium Fluoride — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Fluoride sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.1% 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 Fluoride is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sodium Fluoride scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Listed". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Fluoride? ▼
Sodium Fluoride ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Sodium Fluoride serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sodium Fluoride is recorded as a stabilizer or thickener 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 Fluoride). 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.