Sodium Succinate
Sodium Succinate appears in 8 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 Succinate appears in 8 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.
- 8
- catalogued products
- #17,814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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 Succinate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#17,814 / 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
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 8 products listing it (mean slot 26.0). Sodium Succinate usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sodium Succinate spans 6 named brands and is led by the Broths group. Start with Carbonara Ramen; Hondashi; Instant Osuimono Japanese Clear Broth when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
6 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 8 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 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 Succinate
Products Containing Sodium Succinate
A sample of 8 high-volume listings among the 8 indexed products containing Sodium Succinate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Sodium Succinate sits among other busy catalog rows (8 products, mean score 98.1/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Sodium Succinate page
Start from Sodium Succinate's 8 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Succinate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sodium Succinate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sodium Succinate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#17,814 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Succinate? ▼
Sodium Succinate ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Broths. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Succinate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Succinate appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Succinate). 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.