Sodium Metabisulfate
Sodium Metabisulfate appears in 34 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 Metabisulfate appears in 34 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.
- 34
- catalogued products
- #6,452
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 9 of 34 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Cakebabies; Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Icing; Dark chocolate covered eggs to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Sodium Metabisulfate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
9 of 34 linked records have some flagged component
All 34 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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 Metabisulfate - usage rank #6,452
- Usage rank
- #6,452
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 125 others that also appear in exactly 34 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 34 products listing it (mean slot 19.4). Sodium Metabisulfate usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 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 Metabisulfate
Products Containing Sodium Metabisulfate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 34 indexed products containing Sodium Metabisulfate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Sodium Metabisulfate: 34 listings averaging 92.2/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Sodium Metabisulfate evidence
34 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Metabisulfate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Metabisulfate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Sodium Metabisulfate
Does Sodium Metabisulfate 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 Metabisulfate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Metabisulfate? ▼
Sodium Metabisulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Metabisulfate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Metabisulfate appears in 34 products (#6,452 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Metabisulfate). 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.