Sodium Sorbate
Sodium Sorbate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 8 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Sorbate appears in 8 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.
- 8
- catalogued products
- #17,814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 84%
- 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 Sorbate: top-decile catalog footprint (#17,814 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #17,814
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 84%
- Mean relative depth 84% across 8 parsed labels, slot 16.4 on average. Sodium Sorbate tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
62.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sodium Sorbate as the trigger. Open records such as Amazing Pizza Crusts; Flour Tortillas; Fruit Gel and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 84.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 84% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
62.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 7 of 7 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Function
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 8 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 Sorbate
Products Containing Sodium Sorbate
A sample of 8 high-volume listings among the 8 indexed products containing Sodium Sorbate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Sodium Sorbate sits among other busy catalog rows (8 products, mean score 84.4/100). 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 Sorbate record
8 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Sorbate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Sorbate 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
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Sorbate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
62.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sodium Sorbate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sodium Sorbate scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Sorbate? ▼
Sodium Sorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Sodium Sorbate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sodium Sorbate is recorded as a antimicrobial agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Sorbate). 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.