Used As Preservatives
Used As Preservatives appears in 28 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
Used As Preservatives appears in 28 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.
- 28
- catalogued products
- #7,422
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 85%
- 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 Used As Preservatives - usage rank #7,422
- Usage rank
- #7,422
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 182 others that also appear in exactly 28 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 85%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 28 products listing it (mean slot 13.8). Used As Preservatives 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.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Used As Preservatives spans 11 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 3" lemon drop; Cabo Loco, Tortilla; Charm city cakes, duff goldman, cake & cupcake filling, raspberry 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.
11 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 26 of 27 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 Used As Preservatives
Products Containing Used As Preservatives
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 28 indexed products containing Used As Preservatives:
Used As Preservatives vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Used As Preservatives sits among other busy catalog rows (28 products, mean score 95.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Used As Preservatives page
Start from Used As Preservatives's 28 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Used As Preservatives to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Used As Preservatives — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Used As Preservatives? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Used As Preservatives, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,422 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Used As Preservatives? ▼
Used As Preservatives ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,422 of 247,206), appearing in 28 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Used As Preservatives so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Used As Preservatives appears in 28 products (#7,422 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Used As Preservatives). 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.