Sorbic Acid As A Preservative
Sorbic Acid As A Preservative appears in 392 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 As A Preservative appears in 392 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.
- 392
- catalogued products
- #1,219
- usage rank of 247,206
- 71
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Sorbic Acid As A Preservative - usage rank #1,219
- Usage rank
- #1,219
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 392 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Mean relative depth 74% across 392 parsed labels, slot 17.1 on average. Sorbic Acid As A Preservative tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sorbic Acid As A Preservative spans 71 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 2% Milk American Singles Reduced Fat Pasteurized Process Cheese Food; 2% Milk Cheese; American Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
71 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 389 of 392 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 Sorbic Acid As A Preservative
Across the 392 products on this site that list Sorbic Acid As A Preservative, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 3.1x more often with Sorbic Acid As A Preservative than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sorbic Acid As A Preservative products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 29 | 7.4% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 18 | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 10 | 2.6% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 1.8% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 7 | 1.8% | 3.4% |
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 As A Preservative
Products Containing Sorbic Acid As A Preservative
16 busy labels from the 392 indexed products that list Sorbic Acid As A Preservative:
Sorbic Acid As A Preservative vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Sorbic Acid As A Preservative: 392 listings averaging 96/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Green Chile Peppers · Potassium Hydroxide · Sesame Seed Oil.
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.
What to do with this Sorbic Acid As A Preservative record
Start from Sorbic Acid As A Preservative's 392 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sorbic Acid As A Preservative before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Sorbic Acid As A Preservative with a peer such as “Green Chile Peppers” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sorbic Acid As A Preservative — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sorbic Acid As A Preservative? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sorbic Acid As A Preservative, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,219 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sorbic Acid As A Preservative? ▼
Sorbic Acid As A Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,219 of 247,206), appearing in 392 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sorbic Acid As A Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sorbic Acid As A Preservative appears in 392 products (#1,219 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sorbic Acid As A Preservative). 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.