Potassium chloride (E508)
- Food Caution
What is Potassium chloride (E508)?
Potassium chloride (E508) is a salt that tastes like table salt and is used to cut sodium in foods and salt substitutes. For most healthy people the small amounts in food aren't a concern. The caution is for people with kidney disease or on certain blood-pressure or heart medicines, who may not clear extra potassium, especially from salt substitutes.
What is Yasno’s verdict on Potassium chloride?
Yasno’s verdict on Potassium chloride: Caution. Some evidence of a concern, it depends on the amount, or it is genuinely worth knowing. A Caution always has a specific, sourced reason.
Is Potassium chloride allowed in the EU?
EU status of Potassium chloride: Listed in Yasno’s EU regulatory data, with no further details recorded. Conditions and limits come from the regulation cited below. Yasno summarises them and does not replace the legal text.
| Where | EU | US |
|---|---|---|
| Food | Listed in Yasno’s EU regulatory data, with no further details recorded | Generally Recognised as Safe (GRAS, a US regulatory category) |
What else is it called?
- Klotrix
- Sylvite
- Enseal
Sources
- 2019 food-additive assessment of potassium chloride (E 508), European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), 2019
- Cochrane review of potassium-containing lower-sodium salt substitutes, Cochrane, 2022
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