Aspartame-acesulfame

Aspartame-acesulfame appears in 43 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

Aspartame-acesulfame appears in 43 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.

43
catalogued products
#5,507
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
45%
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.

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 Aspartame-acesulfame as the trigger. Open records such as Caffeine Gum; Winterfresh sugarfree gum; Wrigley's starburst sugarfree gum strawberry and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 22.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 45% 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 43 of 43 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.

Aspartame-acesulfame: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,507 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#5,507
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
45%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 43 products listing it (mean slot 7.3). Aspartame-acesulfame usually falls in the upper 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. 247,206 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 Aspartame-acesulfame

Across the 43 products on this site that list Aspartame-acesulfame, 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. BHT shows up about 90.9x more often with Aspartame-acesulfame than in the catalogue at large.

BHT: +98.9ppBHT+98.9ppAcesulfame Potassium: +72.6ppAcesulfame Potassium+72.6ppSucralose: +62.4ppSucralose+62.4ppRed 40: +43.4ppRed 40+43.4ppAspartame: +43.3ppAspartame+43.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Aspartame-acesulfame products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

BHT
98.9pp
Acesulfame Potassium
72.6pp
Sucralose
62.4pp
Red 40
43.4pp
Aspartame
43.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Aspartame-acesulfame products Share of all products
BHT 43 100% 1.1%
Acesulfame Potassium 32 74.4% 1.8%
Sucralose 28 65.1% 2.7%
Red 40 21 48.8% 5.4%
Aspartame 19 44.2% 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, 2026-09-01.

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 Aspartame-acesulfame

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 020406080 02468 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Aspartame-acesulfame
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Aspartame-acesulfame

Aspartame-acesulfame sits among other busy catalog rows (43 products, mean score 22.2/100). 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.

What to do with this Aspartame-acesulfame record

43 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Aspartame-acesulfame are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Aspartame-acesulfame and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Aspartame-acesulfame — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Aspartame-acesulfame 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 Aspartame-acesulfame is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Aspartame-acesulfame?

Aspartame-acesulfame ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Aspartame-acesulfame so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Aspartame-acesulfame appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Aspartame-acesulfame). 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.