Acid Regulator

Acid Regulator appears in 17 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

Acid Regulator appears in 17 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.

17
catalogued products
#10,499
usage rank of 247,206
8
named brands represented
69%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5 of 17 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Asian home gourmet, spice paste for indian butter chicken, mild; Cinnamon Swirl Cheesecake Layers Of Cinnabon Cinnamon Cheesecake And Vanilla Crunch Cake Topped With Cream Cheese Frosting And Caramel, Cinnamon Swirl; Dark chocolate blueberry acai to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Acid Regulator itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

5 of 17 linked records have some flagged component

All 17 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Acid Regulator: top-decile catalog footprint (#10,499 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#10,499
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 444 others that also appear in exactly 17 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
69%
Mean relative depth 69% across 17 parsed labels, slot 15.8 on average. Acid Regulator tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

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 Acid Regulator

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Acid Regulator
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Acid Regulator

Top-decile company for Acid Regulator: 17 listings averaging 93.5/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Next steps from the Acid Regulator page

Use the 17-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Acid Regulator before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Acid Regulator — common follow-ups

Does Acid Regulator carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Acid Regulator. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Acid Regulator?

Acid Regulator ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,499 of 247,206), appearing in 17 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Acid Regulator so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Acid Regulator appears in 17 products (#10,499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Acid Regulator). 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.