Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color
Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color appears in 10 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 Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 10 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Macaroon Coconut; Sunkist, premium fruit & nuts blends, hawaiian pineapple, hawaiian pineapple; Sweetened Coconut Flakes to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Cooking helpers supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2 of 10 linked records have some flagged component
All 10 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 3, 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.
Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color: top-decile catalog footprint (#15,180 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Mean relative depth 45% across 10 parsed labels, slot 8.4 on average. Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color
Products Containing Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color
High-volume slice (10 of 10) for products naming Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color:
High-volume peers for Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color
High-volume peers for Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color: 10 products, mean screening score 88/100. 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.
Using the Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color evidence
Use the 10-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color 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
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color — common follow-ups
Does Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color 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 Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color? ▼
Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Cooking helpers. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Metabisulfite Added To Retain Color). 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.