Ammonium Glutamate
Ammonium Glutamate appears in 13 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
Ammonium Glutamate appears in 13 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.
- 13
- catalogued products
- #12,640
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Ammonium Glutamate - usage rank #12,640
- Usage rank
- #12,640
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 716 others that also appear in exactly 13 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Mean relative depth 54% across 13 parsed labels, slot 15.1 on average. Ammonium Glutamate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ammonium Glutamate spans 3 named brands and is led by the Mexican-dinner-mixes group. Start with Flour tortillas; Hard & Soft Grande Taco Kit; Multigrain Tortillas when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
3 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 13 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 13 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 Glutamate
Products Containing Ammonium Glutamate
A sample of 13 high-volume listings among the 13 indexed products containing Ammonium Glutamate:
Ammonium Glutamate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Ammonium Glutamate: 13 listings averaging 98.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Ammonium Glutamate evidence
13 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ammonium Glutamate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ammonium Glutamate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ammonium Glutamate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ammonium Glutamate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#12,640 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ammonium Glutamate? ▼
Ammonium Glutamate ranks in the top decile by product count (#12,640 of 247,206), appearing in 13 indexed products led by Mexican-dinner-mixes. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ammonium Glutamate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ammonium Glutamate appears in 13 products (#12,640 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ammonium Glutamate). 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.