Sorbic acid (E200): What the Sources Found

Sorbic acid is the preservative the food industry lists as E200. In our table it is no risk identified: it takes no points off a product's score for a child.

In short

No risk identified. No regulator finding we score, so a product keeps all 33 additive points.
No child flag. Nothing below is written about children specifically, so the class is the same at every age.
3 citations from EFSA, FDA, Open Food Facts, each one below.

What Sorbic acid does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Sorbic acid takes no points off a product's score. Scan the pack in Sito and the score you get is the one for your own child's age, with this additive named in the reasons. How we score has the whole method.

What the sources found

Every classification in our table comes from the citations below, and nothing else. They are quoted as the source wrote them.

EFSA 10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5625
Group ADI 11 mg sorbic acid/kg bw/day for sorbic acid and potassium sorbate; no genotoxicity; refined toddler/children exposure well below the ADI.
FDA 21 CFR §182.3089 (sorbic acid, GRAS)
GRAS in the US as a chemical preservative.
Open Food Facts additives taxonomy node en:e200
Stale — superseded by the 2019 follow-up opinion.

Why this class

Clean current EFSA and FDA status. These rows exist so that an unfamiliar additive is never treated as a bad one: a missing row costs a product nothing, and a clean row says so with citations.

Our confidence in this row's classification is high. Medium or low does not mean the evidence is weak; it means something about the row is still being pinned down, usually a regulatory status confirmed from one source rather than two.