Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative
Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative appears in 37 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
Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative appears in 37 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.
- 37
- catalogued products
- #6,126
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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 Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative - usage rank #6,126
- Usage rank
- #6,126
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 98 others that also appear in exactly 37 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 37 products listing it (mean slot 23.5). Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative 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.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative spans 14 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Ahold chewy dipped granola bars peanut butter; Apple & Cinnamon Cereal Bar; Apple Cinnamon Fruit & Grain Bar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 91.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 37 of 37 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 Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative
Across the 37 products on this site that list Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.5x more often with Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 5 | 13.5% | 5.4% |
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 Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative
Products Containing Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative
16 busy labels from the 37 indexed products that list Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative:
High-volume peers for Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative
Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative sits among other busy catalog rows (37 products, mean score 91.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative evidence
37 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,126 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative? ▼
Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,126 of 247,206), appearing in 37 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative appears in 37 products (#6,126 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ascorbic Acid - A Preservative). 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.