Sodium Tripolyphosphate
Sodium Tripolyphosphate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,507 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Tripolyphosphate appears in 2,507 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.
- 2,507
- catalogued products
- #346
- usage rank of 247,206
- 554
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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 Tripolyphosphate: top-decile catalog footprint (#346 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #346
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Tripolyphosphate in the lower half of the list (67% of list length, mean slot 15.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 874 of 2507 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100/150 cp&d shrimp; 100/150 Cp&D Shrimp; 16/20 ez peel shrimp to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Tripolyphosphate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
874 of 2,507 linked records have some flagged component
All 2507 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 Tripolyphosphate
Across the 2,507 products on this site that list Sodium Tripolyphosphate, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.2x more often with Sodium Tripolyphosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Tripolyphosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 317 | 12.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 292 | 11.6% | 4.5% |
| TBHQ | 139 | 5.5% | 0.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 101 | 4% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 60 | 2.4% | 1.1% |
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
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, HUMECTANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
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 Tripolyphosphate
Products Containing Sodium Tripolyphosphate
High-volume slice (16 of 2,507) for products naming Sodium Tripolyphosphate:
Sodium Tripolyphosphate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Sodium Tripolyphosphate: 2,507 products, mean screening score 94.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Apple · Potassium Lactate · Cherries. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Sodium Tripolyphosphate page
2,507 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sodium Tripolyphosphate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sodium Tripolyphosphate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 Tripolyphosphate — common follow-ups
Does Sodium Tripolyphosphate 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 Tripolyphosphate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" 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 Tripolyphosphate? ▼
Sodium Tripolyphosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#346 of 247,206), appearing in 2,507 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Tripolyphosphate do in food? ▼
Sodium Tripolyphosphate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, antioxidant, drying agent, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, humectant, ph control agent, sequestrant, stabilizer or thickener, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Tripolyphosphate). 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.