Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid

Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid appears in 141 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 And Citric Acid appears in 141 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.

141
catalogued products
#2,458
usage rank of 248,027
61
named brands represented
64%
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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 61 of 141 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, tropical blend, strawberries, mangoes, bananas; Apple pie; Apple Pie Spread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 5–100 score range to Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

All 139 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 5–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Where Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid sits among catalogued ingredients

Usage rank
#2,458
of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 141 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
64%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 141 products listing it (mean slot 13.1). Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid 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.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What else is usually in the same product as Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid

Across the 141 products on this site that list Ascorbic Acid And Citric 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 21.3x more often with Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid products Share of all products
Polysorbate 60 42 29.8% 1.4%
Titanium Dioxide 31 22% 2.1%
Red 40 24 17% 5.4%
Yellow 5 16 11.3% 4.8%
Blue 2 12 8.5% 0.9%

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, 2026-08-02.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid safe to eat?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.

What products contain Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid?

Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid is found in 141 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.

What does Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid do in food?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.

Citation notes Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.

Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.

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