Zinc Sulfate
Zinc Sulfate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 964 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Zinc Sulfate appears in 964 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.
- 964
- catalogued products
- #677
- usage rank of 247,206
- 181
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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 Sulfate - usage rank #677
- Usage rank
- #677
- 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
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Zinc Sulfate in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 23.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 474 of 964 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 360 Total Care Infant Formula; 365 Day Grass Fed Infant Formula with Iron; 99% egg product to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Zinc Sulfate 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.
474 of 964 linked records have some flagged component
All 935 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Zinc Sulfate
Across the 964 products on this site that list Zinc Sulfate, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 8x more often with Zinc Sulfate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Zinc Sulfate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 346 | 35.9% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 210 | 21.8% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 169 | 17.5% | 1.8% |
| Red 3 | 64 | 6.6% | 1.1% |
| Monk fruit extract | 32 | 3.3% | 0.5% |
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
MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, 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 Sulfate
Products Containing Zinc Sulfate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 964 indexed products containing Zinc Sulfate:
Zinc Sulfate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Zinc Sulfate: 964 listings averaging 88.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Sodium Carbonate · Wine Vinegar · Sweetener.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Zinc Sulfate page
Start from Zinc Sulfate's 964 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Zinc Sulfate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Zinc Sulfate with a peer such as “Sodium Carbonate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Zinc Sulfate — common follow-ups
Does Zinc Sulfate 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 Sulfate 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 Sulfate? ▼
Zinc Sulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#677 of 247,206), appearing in 964 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Zinc Sulfate do in food? ▼
Zinc Sulfate is recorded as a malting or fermenting aid, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zinc Sulfate). 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.