Zinc Chloride
Zinc Chloride carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 20 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Zinc Chloride appears in 20 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 20
- catalogued products
- #9,371
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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 Zinc Chloride - usage rank #9,371
- Usage rank
- #9,371
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Averaged label depth puts Zinc Chloride in the lower half of the list (69% of list length, mean slot 10.4). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Zinc Chloride spans 11 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Bite Size Frosted Shredded Wheat Cereal; Campbell& condensed broccoli cheese soup; Campbell'S Soup Broccoli Cheese-Ff when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.5/100 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 10 of 19 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.
Function
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Chloride
Products Containing Zinc Chloride
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 20 indexed products containing Zinc Chloride:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Zinc Chloride: 20 listings averaging 97.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Zinc Chloride record
Use the 20-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Zinc Chloride and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Zinc Chloride
What do the source ratings say about Zinc Chloride? ▼
Zinc Chloride has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 15% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Zinc Chloride? ▼
Zinc Chloride ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Zinc Chloride do in food? ▼
Zinc Chloride is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zinc Chloride). 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.