Acacia
Acacia appears in 820 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
Acacia appears in 820 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.
- 820
- catalogued products
- #753
- usage rank of 247,206
- 193
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
68.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Acacia as the trigger. Open records such as 30g Plant Protein; 6 CT WHITE & CHOCOLATE CUP WITH WHIPPED ICING; A sweet and crunchy mix of butter toffee peanuts, honey roasted peanuts, cinnamon toasted almonds, candy coated peanuts, roasted salted cashew splits and glazed pecans blend, sweet & crunchy blend and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 59.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 49% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
68.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 789 of 809 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Acacia - usage rank #753
- Usage rank
- #753
- 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
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts Acacia in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 12.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Acacia
Across the 820 products on this site that list Acacia, 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. Red 40 shows up about 6.4x more often with Acacia than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Acacia products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 283 | 34.5% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 232 | 28.3% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 228 | 27.8% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 206 | 25.1% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 159 | 19.4% | 3.4% |
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.
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 Acacia
Products Containing Acacia
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 820 indexed products containing Acacia:
Acacia vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Acacia sits among other busy catalog rows (820 products, mean score 59.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Partially Defatted Peanut Flour · Polyglycerol Esters Of Fatty Acids · Romaine Lettuce. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Acacia evidence
Start from Acacia's 820 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Acacia before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Acacia next to “Polyglycerol Esters Of Fatty Acids” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Acacia — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Acacia sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
68.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Acacia is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Acacia? ▼
Acacia ranks in the top decile by product count (#753 of 247,206), appearing in 820 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Acacia so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Acacia appears in 820 products (#753 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Acacia). 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.