Sodium Polyphosphate
Sodium Polyphosphate appears in 442 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 Polyphosphate appears in 442 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.
- 442
- catalogued products
- #1,117
- usage rank of 247,206
- 147
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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: 220 of 442 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3Inone Strong & Rich Coffee; Aged Cheddar Cheese Sauce; All American Sushi Roll to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Polyphosphate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
220 of 442 linked records have some flagged component
All 442 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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 Polyphosphate: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,117 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,117
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 442 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Polyphosphate in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 16.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Polyphosphate
Across the 442 products on this site that list Sodium Polyphosphate, 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. Sucralose shows up about 10.5x more often with Sodium Polyphosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Polyphosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 125 | 28.3% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 86 | 19.5% | 1.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 58 | 13.1% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 55 | 12.4% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 48 | 10.9% | 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.
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 Polyphosphate
Products Containing Sodium Polyphosphate
High-volume slice (16 of 442) for products naming Sodium Polyphosphate:
High-volume peers for Sodium Polyphosphate beside “Bay Leaf”
High-volume peers for Sodium Polyphosphate: 442 products, mean screening score 85/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bay Leaf; Degerminated Yellow Corn Meal; Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Polyphosphate evidence
Use the 442-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Polyphosphate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Sodium Polyphosphate 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 Polyphosphate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Polyphosphate? ▼
Sodium Polyphosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,117 of 247,206), appearing in 442 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Polyphosphate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Polyphosphate appears in 442 products (#1,117 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Polyphosphate). 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.