Foods With Potassium Bromate
422 US grocery products in this catalogue list Potassium Bromate on the label. 264 of them carry both a product name and a brand and can be listed by name.
422 US products list Potassium Bromate (0.05% of 894,137)
Potassium Bromate is comparatively uncommon in this catalogue: 0.05% of 894,137 US products carry it, so the 422 matches below are a narrow slice rather than a staple. Potassium Bromate has the smallest footprint of the 11 additives tracked here, below TBHQ at 2,019 products. Counts come from Open Food Facts labels joined in PlainFoodSafe; FDA SAFFA and CSPI status appear only when the registry record exists. This page reports label occurrence and attributed status, not whether anyone should eat the product.
- 0.05% catalogue share
- 264 named brand matches
- The Decorated Cookie Company largest brand footprint
The short answer
The Decorated Cookie Company accounts for the most named products listing Potassium Bromate in this extract (18 of 264 listable matches); brand #15 on the same list has 3, and the median of these 15 brand counts is 3.
- 422
- US products listing Potassium Bromate
- 0.05%
- of 894,137 catalogue records
- 18
- The Decorated Cookie Company leads named-brand matches
- 3
- brand #15 cutoff on this list
Counts are label occurrence in the current Open Food Facts snapshot, not a recall, certification, or medical recommendation.
Potassium Bromate is comparatively uncommon in this catalogue: 0.05% of 894,137 US products carry it, so the 422 matches below are a narrow slice rather than a staple. Potassium Bromate has the smallest footprint of the 11 additives tracked here, below TBHQ at 2,019 products. The mean position on the ingredient list is 12.9. Ingredient lists run in descending order of weight, so that is mid-label: past the base ingredients, ahead of the smallest-quantity additives. Caramel Coloring leads its label companions at 9.7%, moderately above the 5.7% it holds across the whole catalogue.
3 states have enacted a restriction naming Potassium Bromate, while the FDA SAFFA record still lists it as "Approved". The statutes and their effective dates are listed below as recorded, not summarised. CSPI's Chemical Cuisine classification for it is "Avoid", which is CSPI's rating, not PlainFoodSafe's.
Documented state actions naming Potassium Bromate
| State | Action | Effective | Legislation |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | ban | 2027-01-01 | AB 418 (California Food Safety Act) |
| Illinois | ban | Not recorded | HB 2204 |
| West Virginia | ban | Not recorded | HB 2997 |
Brands with the most products listing Potassium Bromate
The footprint is concentrated: The Decorated Cookie Company alone accounts for 6.8% of the listable matches, and the fifteen brands below cover 79 of them.
| # | Brand | Listing Potassium Bromate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Decorated Cookie Company | 18 |
| 2 | Caldo International Inc. | 9 |
| 3 | Paielli's | 9 |
| 4 | Kings | 6 |
| 5 | Lunds & Byerlys | 5 |
| 6 | Publix | 4 |
| 7 | York Street Market | 4 |
| 8 | Big Y | 3 |
| 9 | Donatos | 3 |
| 10 | Emma's Pub & Pizza | 3 |
| 11 | Food Club | 3 |
| 12 | Foodtown | 3 |
| 13 | Grante | 3 |
| 14 | Hormel Foods | 3 |
| 15 | Hy-Vee | 3 |
Where these products sit by category
By the label's own primary category, matches cluster hardest in Plant-based foods and beverages (59 products, 22.3% of listable matches).
| Primary category (as labelled) | Products |
|---|---|
| Plant-based foods and beverages | 59 |
| Snacks | 57 |
| Frozen foods | 23 |
| Sandwiches | 16 |
| Meals | 14 |
| Condiments | 7 |
| Mexican-dinner-mixes | 5 |
| Cooking helpers | 2 |
| Meats and their products | 2 |
| Breakfasts | 1 |
What else is on the same labels
Share of Potassium Bromate labels carrying each ingredient, next to that ingredient's share of the whole catalogue. A co-occurrence close to the baseline means the two simply meet by chance.
| Ingredient | On Potassium Bromate labels | Catalogue baseline |
|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 9.7% | 5.7% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 8.5% | 0.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 8.1% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 7.3% | 3.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 6.4% | 2.1% |
Named products listing Potassium Bromate
Thirty of the 264 listable matches, ordered by how many flagged additives each label carries in total. Every row links to that product's own record.
Methodology
Matches come from the parsed ingredient links in the PlainFoodSafe database: a product counts here when its OpenFoodFacts ingredient list resolves to the Potassium Bromate record. The headline 422 is every matching product in the catalogue; the 264 listable figure is the subset that also carries a usable product name and brand, which is what the tables above can show by name. Regulatory status is read from the FDA SAFFA extract and the state-action table; the rating word is CSPI's own classification. See the full methodology for how the catalogue is built and dated. The additive status we quote is the FDA's own, so read it at the source: Verify with FDA Substances Added to Food → Source: OpenFoodFacts, https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data
Caveats and limitations
OpenFoodFacts is crowdsourced, so coverage varies by category and brand and a label recorded here may be out of date relative to the product on the shelf today, because reformulation is common and this catalogue reflects the snapshot it was built from, not a live audit of packaging. Ingredient parsing normalises label spellings and can miss unusual ones, so treat the counts as a floor rather than a census. Presence on a label says nothing about quantity, and nothing on this page is a statement about whether any product is safe for any particular person to eat; for that, read the Potassium Bromate source record and the named regulators directly.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Every count on this page is computed from the parsed OpenFoodFacts ingredient links and the FDA/state source tables, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.