Absorbic Acid
Absorbic Acid appears in 22 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
Absorbic Acid appears in 22 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.
- 22
- catalogued products
- #8,787
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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.
Absorbic Acid sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#8,787 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,787
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 22 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Mean relative depth 55% across 22 parsed labels, slot 7.2 on average. Absorbic Acid tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Absorbic Acid spans 12 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Apple Crisp Granola; Apple Pear Banana; Banana Strawberry Apple Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
12 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 14 of 22 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Absorbic Acid
Products Containing Absorbic Acid
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 22 indexed products containing Absorbic Acid:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Absorbic Acid sits among other busy catalog rows (22 products, mean score 98.4/100). 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.
Using the Absorbic Acid evidence
22 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Absorbic Acid are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Absorbic Acid before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Absorbic Acid — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Absorbic Acid? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Absorbic Acid, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,787 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Absorbic Acid? ▼
Absorbic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,787 of 247,206), appearing in 22 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Absorbic Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Absorbic Acid appears in 22 products (#8,787 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Absorbic Acid). 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.