Ammonium Chloride
Ammonium Chloride carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 319 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ammonium Chloride appears in 319 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.
- 319
- catalogued products
- #1,423
- usage rank of 247,206
- 98
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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 Chloride sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,423 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,423
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 319 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Mean relative depth 74% across 319 parsed labels, slot 30.4 on average. Ammonium Chloride 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 147 of 319 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Wheat Enriched Bread; 100% whole wheat bread; Ahold enriched bread split top white to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ammonium Chloride itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
147 of 319 linked records have some flagged component
All 318 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 Chloride
Across the 319 products on this site that list Ammonium Chloride, 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 4.7x more often with Ammonium Chloride than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ammonium Chloride products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 86 | 27% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 28 | 8.8% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 25 | 7.8% | 1.1% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 22 | 6.9% | 2.4% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 20 | 6.3% | 0.2% |
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, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PROCESSING AID
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 Chloride
Products Containing Ammonium Chloride
16 busy labels from the 319 indexed products that list Ammonium Chloride:
High-volume peers for Ammonium Chloride beside “Barley Flakes”
High-volume peers for Ammonium Chloride: 319 products, mean screening score 91.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Barley Flakes · Glyceryl Monostearate · Includes Red 40. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Ammonium Chloride page
Use the 319-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 Ammonium Chloride to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Ammonium Chloride with a peer such as “Barley Flakes” 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ammonium Chloride — common follow-ups
Does Ammonium Chloride 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 Chloride 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 Chloride? ▼
Ammonium Chloride ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,423 of 247,206), appearing in 319 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Ammonium Chloride do in food? ▼
Ammonium Chloride is recorded as a dough strengthener, flavoring agent or adjuvant, leavening agent, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ammonium Chloride). 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.