Sodium Lecithin

Sodium Lecithin appears in 9 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.

What the data can answer

Sodium Lecithin appears in 9 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.

9
catalogued products
#16,390
usage rank of 247,206
5
named brands represented
43%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 9 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Italian Sausage Pizza; Italian Sausage Pizza, A Thin Crust Topped With Sausage And Cheese; My mother delicious, old world rugala, apricot to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Sodium Lecithin itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

2 of 9 linked records have some flagged component

All 9 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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.

High-volume listing for Sodium Lecithin - usage rank #16,390

Usage rank
#16,390
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
43%
Averaged label depth puts Sodium Lecithin in the upper half of the list (43% of list length, mean slot 20.2). 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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 9 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 Lecithin

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Sodium Lecithin Italian Sausage PizzaItalian Sausage Pizza, A Thin Crust Topped With Sausage And CheeseMy mother delicious, old world rugala, apricotMy mother's delicacies, old world rugala, cinnamon nutPizzaTriple Cheese PizzaPepperoni pizzaPizzaPizza
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Sodium Lecithin

High-volume peers for Sodium Lecithin: 9 products, mean screening score 88.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Sodium Lecithin record

9 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Lecithin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Lecithin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Sodium Lecithin

Does Sodium Lecithin carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Sodium Lecithin. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Lecithin?

Sodium Lecithin ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Sodium Lecithin so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Lecithin appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Lecithin). 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.