Sodium Sulfate
Sodium Sulfate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 74 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Sulfate appears in 74 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 74
- catalogued products
- #3,840
- usage rank of 247,206
- 33
- 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 Sulfate: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,840 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,840
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 74 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 74 products listing it (mean slot 24.4). Sodium Sulfate 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 33 of 74 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Archer farms, strawberry cheese danish; Bath Bombs; Boost 530 to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Sulfate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
33 of 74 linked records have some flagged component
All 73 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 Sulfate
Across the 74 products on this site that list Sodium Sulfate, 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. Red 40 shows up about 4.5x more often with Sodium Sulfate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Sulfate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 18 | 24.3% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 14 | 18.9% | 4.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 10.8% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 6 | 8.1% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 8.1% | 4.8% |
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
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
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 Sulfate
Products Containing Sodium Sulfate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 74 indexed products containing Sodium Sulfate:
High-volume peers for Sodium Sulfate beside “100% Natural Coconut Water”
Top-decile company for Sodium Sulfate: 74 listings averaging 82.5/100. Nearest count peers include “100% Natural Coconut Water”, “Bha & Bht Added To Protect Flavor”, “Brine”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Sodium Sulfate record
Use the 74-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Sulfate and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Sodium Sulfate next to “Bha & Bht Added To Protect Flavor” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Sulfate — common follow-ups
Does Sodium Sulfate 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 Sulfate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" 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 Sulfate? ▼
Sodium Sulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,840 of 247,206), appearing in 74 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Sulfate do in food? ▼
Sodium Sulfate is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, ph control agent, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Sulfate). 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.