Sulphites
Sulphites appears in 239 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
Sulphites appears in 239 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.
- 239
- catalogued products
- #1,737
- usage rank of 247,206
- 107
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 52 of 239 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 6 Chocolate Slices; 90 Second Quinoa & Brown Rice; Alcohol Free Wine Virgin Blanc to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sulphites itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
52 of 239 linked records have some flagged component
All 223 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Sulphites: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,737 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,737
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 239 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Averaged label depth puts Sulphites in the lower half of the list (56% of list length, mean slot 13.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Sulphites
Across the 239 products on this site that list Sulphites, 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 2.2x more often with Sulphites than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sulphites products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 30 | 12.6% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 11 | 4.6% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | 4.2% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 2.9% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 6 | 2.5% | 5.4% |
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 Sulphites
Products Containing Sulphites
16 busy labels from the 239 indexed products that list Sulphites:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural Caramel Flavor”)
High-volume peers for Sulphites: 239 products, mean screening score 95.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural Caramel Flavor · Curcumin · Eggplant. 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.
Using the Sulphites evidence
Use the 239-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Sulphites and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Sulphites next to “Curcumin” (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 Sulphites
Does Sulphites carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Sulphites. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sulphites? ▼
Sulphites ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,737 of 247,206), appearing in 239 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sulphites so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sulphites appears in 239 products (#1,737 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sulphites). 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.