Ammonium Hydroxide
Ammonium Hydroxide carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 11 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ammonium Hydroxide appears in 11 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.
- 11
- catalogued products
- #14,190
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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 Hydroxide - usage rank #14,190
- Usage rank
- #14,190
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 11 products listing it (mean slot 21.8). Ammonium Hydroxide usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Ammonium Hydroxide as the trigger. Open records such as Chocolate Cream Bun; excuviance; Target, sugar skull lollipop, watermelon and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 62.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 58% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 11 of 11 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.
Function
LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 11 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 Hydroxide
Products Containing Ammonium Hydroxide
High-volume slice (11 of 11) for products naming Ammonium Hydroxide:
High-volume peers for Ammonium Hydroxide
Top-decile company for Ammonium Hydroxide: 11 listings averaging 62.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Ammonium Hydroxide page
11 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ammonium Hydroxide are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Ammonium Hydroxide and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ammonium Hydroxide — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Ammonium Hydroxide sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Ammonium Hydroxide is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Ammonium Hydroxide scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ammonium Hydroxide? ▼
Ammonium Hydroxide ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Ammonium Hydroxide serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Ammonium Hydroxide is recorded as a leavening agent, ph control agent, surface-finishing agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ammonium Hydroxide). 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.