With Alkali
With Alkali appears in 92 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
With Alkali appears in 92 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.
- 92
- catalogued products
- #3,310
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
53.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify With Alkali as the trigger. Open records such as Assorted Winter Design Oreos; Bar Cake; Barryhill Hot Fudge Topping and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 86.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 49% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 89 of 91 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.
With Alkali sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,310 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,310
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 41 others that also appear in exactly 92 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts With Alkali in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 17.8). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as With Alkali
Across the 92 products on this site that list With Alkali, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 3.4x more often with With Alkali than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of With Alkali products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 14 | 15.2% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 13% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 11 | 12% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 10 | 10.9% | 2.1% |
| Sucralose | 8 | 8.7% | 2.7% |
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 With Alkali
Products Containing With Alkali
16 busy labels from the 92 indexed products that list With Alkali:
With Alkali vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for With Alkali: 92 products, mean screening score 86.4/100. Nearest count peers include “100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour”, “Added To Maintain Color”, “Ammonium Carbonate”. 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.
Next steps from the With Alkali page
Use the 92-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 With Alkali to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when With Alkali sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming With Alkali is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with With Alkali? ▼
With Alkali ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,310 of 247,206), appearing in 92 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is With Alkali so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet With Alkali appears in 92 products (#3,310 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (With Alkali). 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.