Ammonium Phosphate
Ammonium Phosphate appears in 82 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 Phosphate appears in 82 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.
- 82
- catalogued products
- #3,608
- usage rank of 247,206
- 19
- named brands represented
- 76%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
76.8% 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 Phosphate as the trigger. Open records such as Bagels; Bread Dumplings; Candy blasts real chocolate chip cookies and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 88.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 76% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
76.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 82 of 82 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.
Ammonium Phosphate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,608 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,608
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 82 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 76%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 82 products listing it (mean slot 22.9). Ammonium Phosphate 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.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ammonium Phosphate
Across the 82 products on this site that list Ammonium Phosphate, 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 12.4x more often with Ammonium Phosphate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ammonium Phosphate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 58 | 70.7% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 7.3% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 5 | 6.1% | 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.
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 Phosphate
Products Containing Ammonium Phosphate
High-volume slice (16 of 82) for products naming Ammonium Phosphate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added Color”)
High-volume peers for Ammonium Phosphate: 82 products, mean screening score 88.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added Color; Arôme Naturel; Calcium Propionate Preservative. 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.
What to do with this Ammonium Phosphate record
Start from Ammonium Phosphate's 82 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ammonium Phosphate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Ammonium Phosphate next to “Arôme Naturel” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Questions readers ask about Ammonium Phosphate
How should I read safety signals when Ammonium Phosphate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
76.8% 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 Phosphate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ammonium Phosphate? ▼
Ammonium Phosphate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,608 of 247,206), appearing in 82 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ammonium Phosphate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ammonium Phosphate appears in 82 products (#3,608 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ammonium Phosphate). 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.