Ammonium Carbonate
Ammonium Carbonate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 92 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ammonium Carbonate appears in 92 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.
- 92
- catalogued products
- #3,310
- usage rank of 247,206
- 45
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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 Carbonate 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
- 68%
- Averaged label depth puts Ammonium Carbonate in the lower half of the list (68% of list length, mean slot 15.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 12% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ammonium Carbonate spans 45 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Advent Calendar Chocolate; Almond Milk Dairy Free Gelato Sandwich Bars; Amberye, honey cookies, rum when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
45 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 79 of 88 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.
Function
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 Ammonium Carbonate
Products Containing Ammonium Carbonate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 92 indexed products containing Ammonium Carbonate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour”)
Top-decile company for Ammonium Carbonate: 92 listings averaging 97.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour · Added To Maintain Color · With Alkali.
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.
Next steps from the Ammonium Carbonate page
Use the 92-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Ammonium Carbonate 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. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Ammonium Carbonate
What do the source ratings say about Ammonium Carbonate? ▼
Ammonium Carbonate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 12% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ammonium Carbonate? ▼
Ammonium Carbonate 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.
What does Ammonium Carbonate do in food? ▼
Ammonium Carbonate is recorded as a leavening agent, ph control agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ammonium Carbonate). 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.