Zinc
Zinc appears in 994 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
Zinc appears in 994 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.
- 994
- catalogued products
- #667
- usage rank of 247,206
- 332
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 397 of 994 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3rd Trimester Prenatal Pack; Abejuelas de Miel; Actual Sunshine Rise and Glow to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Zinc itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
397 of 994 linked records have some flagged component
All 945 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.
High-volume listing for Zinc - usage rank #667
- Usage rank
- #667
- 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
- 68%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 994 products listing it (mean slot 22.2). Zinc usually falls in the lower half of the 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Zinc
Across the 994 products on this site that list Zinc, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.9x more often with Zinc than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Zinc products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 154 | 15.5% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 146 | 14.7% | 4.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 111 | 11.2% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 97 | 9.8% | 1.1% |
| Yellow 6 | 94 | 9.5% | 3.4% |
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 Zinc
Products Containing Zinc
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 994 indexed products containing Zinc:
Zinc vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Zinc: 994 listings averaging 85.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Enriched Flour Bleached; Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor; Trisodium Phosphate.
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.
Next steps from the Zinc page
Use the 994-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Zinc before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Zinc 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 Zinc. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Zinc? ▼
Zinc ranks in the top decile by product count (#667 of 247,206), appearing in 994 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Zinc so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Zinc appears in 994 products (#667 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zinc). 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.