Sodium Pyrophosphate
Sodium Pyrophosphate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 322 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Pyrophosphate appears in 322 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.
- 322
- catalogued products
- #1,416
- usage rank of 247,206
- 114
- 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.
High-volume listing for Sodium Pyrophosphate - usage rank #1,416
- Usage rank
- #1,416
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 322 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Mean relative depth 71% across 322 parsed labels, slot 23.7 on average. Sodium Pyrophosphate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 129 of 322 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2 Quarter Pounder Bee, Bbq, Bacon & Cheese Patties; 20 mini choco cakes; 7-eleven, fresh to go, cookie, peanut butter to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Pyrophosphate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
129 of 322 linked records have some flagged component
All 322 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Pyrophosphate
Across the 322 products on this site that list Sodium Pyrophosphate, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3.4x more often with Sodium Pyrophosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Pyrophosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 49 | 15.2% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 37 | 11.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 27 | 8.4% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 14 | 4.3% | 1.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 12 | 3.7% | 2.1% |
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
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Pyrophosphate
Products Containing Sodium Pyrophosphate
High-volume slice (16 of 322) for products naming Sodium Pyrophosphate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Brown Cane Sugar”)
Sodium Pyrophosphate sits among other busy catalog rows (322 products, mean score 93.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Brown Cane Sugar”, “Natural Coconut Nectar”, “Less Than 2% Of Salt”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Sodium Pyrophosphate page
Use the 322-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Pyrophosphate and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Sodium Pyrophosphate
Does Sodium Pyrophosphate 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 Pyrophosphate 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 Pyrophosphate? ▼
Sodium Pyrophosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,416 of 247,206), appearing in 322 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Pyrophosphate do in food? ▼
Sodium Pyrophosphate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, drying agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, formulation aid, humectant, ph control agent, sequestrant, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Pyrophosphate). 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.