Zinc Gluconate

Zinc Gluconate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 636 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

Zinc Gluconate appears in 636 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.

636
catalogued products
#889
usage rank of 247,206
153
named brands represented
61%
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.

Zinc Gluconate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#889 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#889
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 636 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
61%
Averaged label depth puts Zinc Gluconate in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 15.9). 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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 303 of 636 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3 Hour Mint, Peppermint; 3-2-1 Plan Shakes; 30g Protein Nutritional Shake Dulce de Leche to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Zinc Gluconate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

303 of 636 linked records have some flagged component

All 601 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Zinc Gluconate

Across the 636 products on this site that list Zinc Gluconate, 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. Sucralose shows up about 12.3x more often with Zinc Gluconate than in the catalogue at large.

Sucralose: +30.5ppSucralose+30.5ppAcesulfame Potassium: +25.9ppAcesulfame Potassium+25.9ppCarrageenan: +21.8ppCarrageenan+21.8ppMonk fruit extract: +4.5ppMonk fruit extract+4.5ppBlue 1: +0.7ppBlue 1+0.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Zinc Gluconate products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sucralose
30.5pp
Acesulfame Potassium
25.9pp
Carrageenan
21.8pp
Monk fruit extract
4.5pp
Blue 1
0.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of Zinc Gluconate products Share of all products
Sucralose 211 33.2% 2.7%
Acesulfame Potassium 176 27.7% 1.8%
Carrageenan 167 26.3% 4.5%
Monk fruit extract 32 5% 0.5%
Blue 1 31 4.9% 4.2%

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.

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 Gluconate

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Zinc Gluconate
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Organic Spirulina”)

Top-decile company for Zinc Gluconate: 636 listings averaging 85.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Spirulina; Roasted Almonds; Soybean And Palm Oil.

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.

Using the Zinc Gluconate evidence

Start from Zinc Gluconate's 636 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Zinc Gluconate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Place Zinc Gluconate next to “Roasted Almonds” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Gluconate

Does Zinc Gluconate carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Zinc Gluconate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Zinc Gluconate?

Zinc Gluconate ranks in the top decile by product count (#889 of 247,206), appearing in 636 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What does Zinc Gluconate do in food?

Zinc Gluconate is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zinc Gluconate). 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.