Sodium Lactate
Sodium Lactate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,348 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Lactate appears in 2,348 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.
- 2,348
- catalogued products
- #364
- usage rank of 247,206
- 478
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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 Lactate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#364 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #364
- 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
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Lactate in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 14.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
78.2% 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 Lactate as the trigger. Open records such as 1 Wow!, Lollipop Bouquet; 16-1 Link-Apple And Cinnamon Breakfast Sausage; 49 Assorted Flavors Jelly Beans and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 70.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 53% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
78.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 2337 of 2347 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 Lactate
Across the 2,348 products on this site that list Sodium Lactate, 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 14.9x more often with Sodium Lactate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Lactate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 840 | 35.8% | 2.4% |
| Red 40 | 561 | 23.9% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 466 | 19.8% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 406 | 17.3% | 4.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 317 | 13.5% | 2.1% |
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, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, WASHING OR SURFACE REMOVAL 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 Lactate
Products Containing Sodium Lactate
16 busy labels from the 2,348 indexed products that list Sodium Lactate:
High-volume peers for Sodium Lactate beside “Tocopherols”
Sodium Lactate sits among other busy catalog rows (2,348 products, mean score 70.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Tocopherols; Potato Flour; Granulated Garlic. 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.
Using the Sodium Lactate evidence
Start from Sodium Lactate's 2,348 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Lactate and read how the term sits on real packages. 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Lactate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
78.2% 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 Lactate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sodium Lactate 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 Lactate? ▼
Sodium Lactate ranks in the top decile by product count (#364 of 247,206), appearing in 2,348 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 Lactate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sodium Lactate is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, ph control agent, washing or surface removal 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 Lactate). 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.