Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate appears in 1,100 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
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate appears in 1,100 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.
- 1,100
- catalogued products
- #626
- usage rank of 247,206
- 281
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
69.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate as the trigger. Open records such as 100% Angus Beef Cheeseburger; 5 crab cakes; Abdallah, Rabbit Tail Marshmallows With Milk Chocolate and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 71.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 58% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
69.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1100 of 1100 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.
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#626 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #626
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Mean relative depth 58% across 1,100 parsed labels, slot 16.3 on average. Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
Across the 1,100 products on this site that list Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 5.5x more often with Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 291 | 26.5% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 248 | 22.5% | 4.2% |
| Carrageenan | 229 | 20.8% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 208 | 18.9% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 191 | 17.4% | 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 Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
Products Containing Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,100 indexed products containing Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Manganese Sulfate”)
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate sits among other busy catalog rows (1,100 products, mean score 71.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Manganese Sulfate · Organic Evaporated Cane Sugar · Carob Bean. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate evidence
Start from Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate's 1,100 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate next to “Organic Evaporated Cane Sugar” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the 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 Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
69.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate? ▼
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#626 of 247,206), appearing in 1,100 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate appears in 1,100 products (#626 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate). 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.