Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid
Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid appears in 16 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
Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid appears in 16 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.
- 16
- catalogued products
- #10,944
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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.
Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid: top-decile catalog footprint (#10,944 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #10,944
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 504 others that also appear in exactly 16 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Mean relative depth 66% across 16 parsed labels, slot 7.6 on average. Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid spans 8 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Banana Nectar; Carrot & Guava Juice Drink; Carrot & Mango Juice Drink when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 15 of 16 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 Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid
Products Containing Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid
High-volume slice (16 of 16) for products naming Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid:
High-volume peers for Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid
High-volume peers for Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid: 16 products, mean screening score 99.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid record
Use the 16-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,944 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid? ▼
Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,944 of 247,206), appearing in 16 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 Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Acidity Regulator - Citric Acid appears in 16 products (#10,944 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Acidity Regulator - Citric 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.