Sulfiting Agents
Sulfiting Agents carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 165 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sulfiting Agents appears in 165 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.
- 165
- catalogued products
- #2,196
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 80%
- 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 Sulfiting Agents - usage rank #2,196
- Usage rank
- #2,196
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 166 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 80%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 166 products listing it (mean slot 23.2). Sulfiting Agents usually falls near the end 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
61.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sulfiting Agents as the trigger. Open records such as 7-Select Mahalo Teriyaki Meat Snack Stick; Apple pie bites; Asian Seafood Sauce and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 91.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 80% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
61.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 153 of 161 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sulfiting Agents
Across the 165 products on this site that list Sulfiting Agents, 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 9.6x more often with Sulfiting Agents than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sulfiting Agents products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 90 | 54.5% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 12 | 7.3% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 8 | 4.8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 8 | 4.8% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 6 | 3.6% | 1.3% |
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
ANTIOXIDANT
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 Sulfiting Agents
Products Containing Sulfiting Agents
16 busy labels from the 165 indexed products that list Sulfiting Agents:
High-volume peers for Sulfiting Agents beside “Com”
High-volume peers for Sulfiting Agents: 165 products, mean screening score 91.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Com · Dimethyl Silicone · Organic Grade A Reduced Fat Milk. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Sulfiting Agents record
Start from Sulfiting Agents's 165 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sulfiting Agents and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Sulfiting Agents with a peer such as “Com” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Sulfiting Agents sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
61.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sulfiting Agents is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sulfiting Agents scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sulfiting Agents? ▼
Sulfiting Agents ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,196 of 247,206), appearing in 165 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Sulfiting Agents serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sulfiting Agents is recorded as a antioxidant in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sulfiting Agents). 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.