Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate

Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate appears in 72 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

Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate appears in 72 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.

72
catalogued products
#3,897
usage rank of 247,206
35
named brands represented
64%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

93.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate as the trigger. Open records such as Aunt jemima pancake syrup butter lite; Aunt jemima pancake syrup lite; Aunt jemima, lite syrup, original and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 64% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

93.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 72 of 72 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

High-volume listing for Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate - usage rank #3,897

Usage rank
#3,897
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 72 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
64%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 72 products listing it (mean slot 10.2). Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate 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.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate

Across the 72 products on this site that list Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate, 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 15.8x more often with Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +84.6ppCaramel Coloring+84.6ppAcesulfame Potassium: +16.3ppAcesulfame Potassium+16.3ppSucralose: +8.4ppSucralose+8.4ppTitanium Dioxide: +4.8ppTitanium Dioxide+4.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
84.6pp
Acesulfame Potassium
16.3pp
Sucralose
8.4pp
Titanium Dioxide
4.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 65 90.3% 5.7%
Acesulfame Potassium 13 18.1% 1.8%
Sucralose 8 11.1% 2.7%
Titanium Dioxide 5 6.9% 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.

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 Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate: 72 products, mean screening score 87/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added To Retain Moisture · Almond Oil · Natural Banana Flavoring. 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 Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate page

Use the 72-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate next to “Almond Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate

How should I read safety signals when Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate sits in heavily flagged products?

93.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate?

Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,897 of 247,206), appearing in 72 indexed products led by Sweeteners. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate appears in 72 products (#3,897 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sorbic Acid And Sodium Benzoate). 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.