Sodium Thiosulfate
Sodium Thiosulfate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 19 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Thiosulfate appears in 19 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.
- 19
- catalogued products
- #9,730
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- 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.
Sodium Thiosulfate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,730 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,730
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 368 others that also appear in exactly 19 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 19 products listing it (mean slot 17.3). Sodium Thiosulfate 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sodium Thiosulfate spans 17 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Bagel Chips, Cream Cheese, Hard Boiled Egg & Dried Fruit; Balsamic Chicken And Orzo Pasta; Breaded Mild Jalapeno Pepper Halves Stuffed With 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.
17 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 18 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.
Function
ANTIOXIDANT, FORMULATION AID, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING 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 Thiosulfate
Products Containing Sodium Thiosulfate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 19 indexed products containing Sodium Thiosulfate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Sodium Thiosulfate: 19 products, mean screening score 96.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Sodium Thiosulfate record
Use the 19-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Thiosulfate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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
What do the source ratings say about Sodium Thiosulfate? ▼
Sodium Thiosulfate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 10.5% 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 Thiosulfate? ▼
Sodium Thiosulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,730 of 247,206), appearing in 19 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Thiosulfate do in food? ▼
Sodium Thiosulfate is recorded as a antioxidant, formulation aid, oxidizing or reducing agent, sequestrant, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Thiosulfate). 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.