Zinc Picolinate
Zinc Picolinate appears in 10 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 Picolinate appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 87%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4 of 10 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chadwick bay, enhanced - southern style sweet tea; Kroger, vitamin enhanced water beverage, blood orange; Kroger, vitamin enhanced water beverage, cherry to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Zinc Picolinate itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
4 of 10 linked records have some flagged component
All 10 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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 Picolinate - usage rank #15,180
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 87%
- Mean relative depth 87% across 10 parsed labels, slot 17.2 on average. Zinc Picolinate tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Picolinate
Products Containing Zinc Picolinate
10 busy labels from the 10 indexed products that list Zinc Picolinate:
Zinc Picolinate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Zinc Picolinate sits among other busy catalog rows (10 products, mean score 91/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Zinc Picolinate page
10 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Zinc Picolinate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Zinc Picolinate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Zinc Picolinate
Does Zinc Picolinate 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 Picolinate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Zinc Picolinate? ▼
Zinc Picolinate ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Zinc Picolinate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Zinc Picolinate appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zinc Picolinate). 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.