Baking Powder
Baking Powder appears in 6,163 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
Baking Powder appears in 6,163 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.
- 6,163
- catalogued products
- #180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,490
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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: 1627 of 6163 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Artisan Foods, 100% Tamales, Jalapeno Pepper & Queso Fresco; 100% Grain-Free Bagels - Cinnamon-Raisin; 100% Tamales, Black Beans & Queso Chihuahua to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Baking Powder itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1627 of 6,163 linked records have some flagged component
All 6076 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.
Baking Powder sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#180 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 6,163 parsed labels, slot 19.3 on average. Baking Powder tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Baking Powder
Across the 6,163 products on this site that list Baking Powder, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Baking Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 460 | 7.5% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 403 | 6.5% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 395 | 6.4% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 380 | 6.2% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 335 | 5.4% | 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 Baking Powder
Products Containing Baking Powder
High-volume slice (16 of 6,163) for products naming Baking Powder:
High-volume peers for Baking Powder beside “Milk Chocolate”
Baking Powder sits among other busy catalog rows (6,163 products, mean score 91.5/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Milk Chocolate · Beta Carotene · Seasoning. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Baking Powder page
6,163 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Baking Powder are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Baking Powder before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Baking Powder next to “Beta Carotene” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Baking Powder — common follow-ups
Does Baking Powder 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 Baking Powder. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Baking Powder? ▼
Baking Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#180 of 247,206), appearing in 6,163 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Baking Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Baking Powder appears in 6,163 products (#180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Baking Powder). 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.