Sodium Metaphosphate
Sodium Metaphosphate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 34 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Metaphosphate appears in 34 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.
- 34
- catalogued products
- #6,452
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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 Metaphosphate: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,452 of 247,206)
- 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
- 58%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Metaphosphate in the lower half of the list (58% of list length, mean slot 22.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 16 of 34 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Barley Tea; Buldak Taco Spicy Ramen Spicy Chicken Artificially Flavored; Carbonated Soft Drink to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Sodium Metaphosphate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
16 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 25–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Metaphosphate
Across the 34 products on this site that list Sodium Metaphosphate, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 4.6x more often with Sodium Metaphosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Metaphosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 26.5% | 5.7% |
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
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
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 Metaphosphate
Products Containing Sodium Metaphosphate
16 busy labels from the 34 indexed products that list Sodium Metaphosphate:
High-volume peers for Sodium Metaphosphate
High-volume peers for Sodium Metaphosphate: 34 products, mean screening score 91.8/100. 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.
Next steps from the Sodium Metaphosphate page
34 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Metaphosphate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Metaphosphate 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. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Sodium Metaphosphate
Does Sodium Metaphosphate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Sodium Metaphosphate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Metaphosphate? ▼
Sodium Metaphosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Metaphosphate do in food? ▼
Sodium Metaphosphate is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, ph control agent, sequestrant, stabilizer or thickener, surface-active agent, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Metaphosphate). 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.