As Ascorbic Acid
As Ascorbic Acid appears in 127 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
As Ascorbic Acid appears in 127 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.
- 127
- catalogued products
- #2,653
- usage rank of 247,206
- 81
- named brands represented
- 23%
- 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.
As Ascorbic Acid: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,653 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,653
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 127 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 23%
- Mean relative depth 23% across 127 parsed labels, slot 7.0 on average. As Ascorbic Acid tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: As Ascorbic Acid spans 81 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with 3rd Trimester Prenatal Pack; Acai juice beverage; Acai juice beverage when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
81 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 97 of 111 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.
What else is usually in the same product as As Ascorbic Acid
Across the 127 products on this site that list As Ascorbic Acid, 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. Sucralose shows up about 4.4x more often with As Ascorbic Acid than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of As Ascorbic Acid products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 15 | 11.8% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 5 | 3.9% | 1.8% |
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 As Ascorbic Acid
Products Containing As Ascorbic Acid
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 127 indexed products containing As Ascorbic Acid:
As Ascorbic Acid vs other top-decile catalog footprints
As Ascorbic Acid sits among other busy catalog rows (127 products, mean score 96.4/100). Nearest count peers include “Bacon Flavor”, “Beet Sugar”, “Benzyl Alcohol”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 As Ascorbic Acid record
Start from As Ascorbic Acid's 127 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list As Ascorbic Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare As Ascorbic Acid with a peer such as “Bacon Flavor” on 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
As Ascorbic Acid — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on As Ascorbic Acid? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to As Ascorbic Acid, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,653 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with As Ascorbic Acid? ▼
As Ascorbic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,653 of 247,206), appearing in 127 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is As Ascorbic Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet As Ascorbic Acid appears in 127 products (#2,653 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (As Ascorbic Acid). 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.