Adipic Acid
Adipic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 608 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Adipic Acid appears in 608 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 608
- catalogued products
- #929
- usage rank of 247,206
- 125
- named brands represented
- 35%
- 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.
Adipic Acid: top-decile catalog footprint (#929 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #929
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 35%
- Averaged label depth puts Adipic Acid in the upper half of the list (35% of list length, mean slot 8.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
87% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Adipic Acid as the trigger. Open records such as All American Casein Free Cheese; Angel Food Cake; Angel Food Cake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 56.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 35% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
87% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 606 of 606 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Adipic Acid
Across the 608 products on this site that list Adipic Acid, 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 7.4x more often with Adipic Acid than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Adipic Acid products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 243 | 40% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 196 | 32.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 169 | 27.8% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 156 | 25.7% | 4.2% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 116 | 19.1% | 1.8% |
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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT
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 Adipic Acid
Products Containing Adipic Acid
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 608 indexed products containing Adipic Acid:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Avocado”)
Adipic Acid sits among other busy catalog rows (608 products, mean score 56.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Avocado; Rice Bran; Cottonseed Oils. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Adipic Acid record
Use the 608-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Adipic Acid before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Adipic Acid
How should I read safety signals when Adipic Acid sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
87% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Adipic Acid is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Adipic Acid scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Adipic Acid? ▼
Adipic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#929 of 247,206), appearing in 608 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Adipic Acid serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Adipic Acid is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant, leavening agent, ph control agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Adipic 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.