Sodium Propionate - A Preservative
Sodium Propionate - A Preservative appears in 25 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 Propionate - A Preservative appears in 25 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.
- 25
- catalogued products
- #8,001
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Sodium Propionate - A Preservative - usage rank #8,001
- Usage rank
- #8,001
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Mean relative depth 74% across 25 parsed labels, slot 46.9 on average. Sodium Propionate - A Preservative tends to sit in the lower 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sodium Propionate - A Preservative spans 11 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Apple & Cinnamon Cereal Bar; Apple Cinnamon Fruit & Grain Bar; Apple cinnamon soft baked breakfast bars when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
11 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 25 of 25 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Propionate - A Preservative
Products Containing Sodium Propionate - A Preservative
16 busy labels from the 25 indexed products that list Sodium Propionate - A Preservative:
Sodium Propionate - A Preservative vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Sodium Propionate - A Preservative sits among other busy catalog rows (25 products, mean score 94/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Sodium Propionate - A Preservative record
Start from Sodium Propionate - A Preservative's 25 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Propionate - A Preservative to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 Propionate - A Preservative — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sodium Propionate - A Preservative? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sodium Propionate - A Preservative, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,001 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Propionate - A Preservative? ▼
Sodium Propionate - A Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Propionate - A Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Propionate - A Preservative appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Propionate - A Preservative). 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.