Acidity Regulators
Acidity Regulators appears in 211 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 Regulators appears in 211 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.
- 211
- catalogued products
- #1,877
- usage rank of 247,206
- 101
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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 Regulators: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,877 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,877
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 211 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Mean relative depth 57% across 211 parsed labels, slot 17.0 on average. Acidity Regulators 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Acidity Regulators spans 101 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 2 Lemon & Sultana Danish Pastries; 4 Cherry Bakewell Tarts; Almond Biscuit Sticks when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
101 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 205 of 210 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Acidity Regulators
Across the 211 products on this site that list Acidity Regulators, 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. Sucralose shows up about 1.9x more often with Acidity Regulators than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Acidity Regulators products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 11 | 5.2% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 4.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 6 | 2.8% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 5 | 2.4% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 6 | 5 | 2.4% | 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 Acidity Regulators
Products Containing Acidity Regulators
16 busy labels from the 211 indexed products that list Acidity Regulators:
Acidity Regulators vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Acidity Regulators: 211 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bourbon; Leek; Mandarin Oranges. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Acidity Regulators record
Start from Acidity Regulators's 211 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Acidity Regulators to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Acidity Regulators with a peer such as “Bourbon” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Acidity Regulators — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Acidity Regulators? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Acidity Regulators, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,877 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Acidity Regulators? ▼
Acidity Regulators ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,877 of 247,206), appearing in 211 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Acidity Regulators so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Acidity Regulators appears in 211 products (#1,877 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Acidity Regulators). 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.