Sparkling Water
Sparkling Water appears in 296 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
Sparkling Water appears in 296 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.
- 296
- catalogued products
- #1,501
- usage rank of 247,206
- 56
- named brands represented
- 5%
- 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 Sparkling Water - usage rank #1,501
- Usage rank
- #1,501
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 296 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 5%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 296 products listing it (mean slot 1.5). Sparkling Water usually falls near the top of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sparkling Water spans 56 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with 15 pack variety; Ahold, cream soda; Ahold, diet ginger beer when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
56 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 256 of 288 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 Sparkling Water
Across the 296 products on this site that list Sparkling Water, 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. Sucralose shows up about 2x more often with Sparkling Water than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sparkling Water products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 16 | 5.4% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 3.7% | 5.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 8 | 2.7% | 1.8% |
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 Sparkling Water
Products Containing Sparkling Water
16 busy labels from the 296 indexed products that list Sparkling Water:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Lobster”)
High-volume peers for Sparkling Water: 296 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Lobster; Turmeric Color; Vegetable Gums. 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 Sparkling Water page
Start from Sparkling Water's 296 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sparkling Water 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. 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.
Questions readers ask about Sparkling Water
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sparkling Water? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sparkling Water, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,501 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sparkling Water? ▼
Sparkling Water ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,501 of 247,206), appearing in 296 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sparkling Water so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sparkling Water appears in 296 products (#1,501 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sparkling Water). 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.