Acidulant
Acidulant appears in 385 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
Acidulant appears in 385 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.
- 385
- catalogued products
- #1,234
- usage rank of 247,206
- 128
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 91 of 385 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3 Color 5 Cheese Tortelloni; 3-Dees Fruit Snacks; 7-eleven fresh to go, chocolate chunk cookie to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Acidulant itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
91 of 385 linked records have some flagged component
All 377 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
High-volume listing for Acidulant - usage rank #1,234
- Usage rank
- #1,234
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 385 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 385 parsed labels, slot 14.1 on average. Acidulant 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Acidulant
Across the 385 products on this site that list Acidulant, 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 1.9x more often with Acidulant than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Acidulant products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 40 | 10.4% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 31 | 8.1% | 4.2% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 23 | 6% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 18 | 4.7% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 4.2% | 5.7% |
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 Acidulant
Products Containing Acidulant
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 385 indexed products containing Acidulant:
Acidulant vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Acidulant: 385 listings averaging 91.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Ascorbic Acid Added As A Dough Conditioner; Naturally Derived Citric Acid; Reduced Mineral Whey Powder.
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.
What to do with this Acidulant record
385 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Acidulant are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Acidulant 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. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Acidulant 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 Acidulant. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Acidulant? ▼
Acidulant ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,234 of 247,206), appearing in 385 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Acidulant so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Acidulant appears in 385 products (#1,234 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Acidulant). 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.