Sodium Sulfite
Sodium Sulfite carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 534 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Sulfite appears in 534 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.
- 534
- catalogued products
- #1,009
- usage rank of 247,206
- 144
- named brands represented
- 90%
- 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 Sulfite sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,009 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,009
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 534 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 90%
- Mean relative depth 90% across 534 parsed labels, slot 20.4 on average. Sodium Sulfite tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sodium Sulfite spans 144 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Lemon Juice; 180 snacks, toasted coconut squares; Al Amir, Premium Fava Beans when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
144 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 442 of 526 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Sulfite
Across the 534 products on this site that list Sodium Sulfite, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Sulfite products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 23 | 4.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 21 | 3.9% | 5.4% |
| TBHQ | 17 | 3.2% | 0.5% |
| Blue 1 | 14 | 2.6% | 4.2% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 10 | 1.9% | 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
ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT
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 Sulfite
Products Containing Sodium Sulfite
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 534 indexed products containing Sodium Sulfite:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Herbs”)
High-volume peers for Sodium Sulfite: 534 products, mean screening score 96.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Herbs”, “Propylene Glycol Monoesters”, “Brominated Vegetable Oil”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Sodium Sulfite page
Use the 534-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Sulfite to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Sodium Sulfite next to “Propylene Glycol Monoesters” (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 Sulfite — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Sodium Sulfite? ▼
Sodium Sulfite has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 13.5% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Sulfite? ▼
Sodium Sulfite ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,009 of 247,206), appearing in 534 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Sulfite do in food? ▼
Sodium Sulfite is recorded as a antioxidant, color or coloring adjunct, dough strengthener, flour treating agent, formulation aid, oxidizing or reducing agent, ph control agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Sulfite). 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.