B3
B3 appears in 284 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
B3 appears in 284 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.
- 284
- catalogued products
- #1,537
- usage rank of 247,206
- 84
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 80 of 284 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12 White Rolls; 2 Goat's Cheese & Caramelised Onion Tarts; 4 ciabatta rolls to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to B3 itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
80 of 284 linked records have some flagged component
All 273 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
B3: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,537 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,537
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 284 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 284 parsed labels, slot 14.3 on average. B3 tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
What else is usually in the same product as B3
Across the 284 products on this site that list B3, 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 8.7x more often with B3 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of B3 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 67 | 23.6% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 20 | 7% | 1.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 4.6% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 12 | 4.2% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | 3.5% | 4.8% |
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 B3
Products Containing B3
High-volume slice (16 of 284) for products naming B3:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Barley Malt Powder”)
High-volume peers for B3: 284 products, mean screening score 91.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Barley Malt Powder”, “Liquid Soybean Oil”, “Pasteurized Skim Milk”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the B3 page
Use the 284-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing B3 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- 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.
Questions readers ask about B3
Does B3 carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to B3. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with B3? ▼
B3 ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,537 of 247,206), appearing in 284 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is B3 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet B3 appears in 284 products (#1,537 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (B3). 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.