Sulphite
Sulphite appears in 27 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
Sulphite appears in 27 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.
- 27
- catalogued products
- #7,605
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- 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.
High-volume listing for Sulphite - usage rank #7,605
- Usage rank
- #7,605
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 185 others that also appear in exactly 27 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Averaged label depth puts Sulphite in the lower half of the list (64% of list length, mean slot 14.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sulphite spans 16 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Absolute Yummy Hot Chili Oil; Black bread; Chicken Soup For The Soul when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
16 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 22 of 26 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.
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 Sulphite
Products Containing Sulphite
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 27 indexed products containing Sulphite:
High-volume peers for Sulphite
High-volume peers for Sulphite: 27 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Sulphite page
Start from Sulphite's 27 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sulphite and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- 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.
Sulphite — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sulphite? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sulphite, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,605 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sulphite? ▼
Sulphite ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,605 of 247,206), appearing in 27 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sulphite so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sulphite appears in 27 products (#7,605 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sulphite). 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.