Ammonium Bicarbonate
Ammonium Bicarbonate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 3,221 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ammonium Bicarbonate appears in 3,221 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.
- 3,221
- catalogued products
- #291
- usage rank of 247,206
- 691
- named brands represented
- 77%
- 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.
Ammonium Bicarbonate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#291 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #291
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 77%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3,221 products listing it (mean slot 20.5). Ammonium Bicarbonate usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 871 of 3221 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100 Calorie Snack Packs Baked Chocolate Wafer Snacks; 365 everyday value, chocolate chip cookie bites; 365 everyday value, cracked wheat crackers to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ammonium Bicarbonate itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
871 of 3,221 linked records have some flagged component
All 3188 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ammonium Bicarbonate
Across the 3,221 products on this site that list Ammonium Bicarbonate, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Ammonium Bicarbonate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ammonium Bicarbonate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 388 | 12% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 295 | 9.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 262 | 8.1% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 223 | 6.9% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 167 | 5.2% | 4.2% |
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
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, TEXTURIZER
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 Ammonium Bicarbonate
Products Containing Ammonium Bicarbonate
16 busy labels from the 3,221 indexed products that list Ammonium Bicarbonate:
Ammonium Bicarbonate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Ammonium Bicarbonate sits among other busy catalog rows (3,221 products, mean score 90.4/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Artificial Colors; Rosemary Extract; Vitamin B3. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Ammonium Bicarbonate page
Start from Ammonium Bicarbonate's 3,221 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Ammonium Bicarbonate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Ammonium Bicarbonate with a peer such as “Artificial Colors” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Ammonium Bicarbonate — common follow-ups
Does Ammonium Bicarbonate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Ammonium Bicarbonate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ammonium Bicarbonate? ▼
Ammonium Bicarbonate ranks in the top decile by product count (#291 of 247,206), appearing in 3,221 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ammonium Bicarbonate do in food? ▼
Ammonium Bicarbonate is recorded as a dough strengthener, leavening agent, ph control agent, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ammonium Bicarbonate). 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.