Baking Soda
Baking Soda appears in 23,154 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 Soda appears in 23,154 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.
- 23,154
- catalogued products
- #44
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,914
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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: 7955 of 23154 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0875754000640; 1-2-3 gluten free, divinely decadent, silky & rich brownies baking mix; 1-2-3 gluten free, southern glory, biscuits baking mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Baking Soda 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.
7955 of 23,154 linked records have some flagged component
All 22888 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.
High-volume listing for Baking Soda - usage rank #44
- Usage rank
- #44
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Averaged label depth puts Baking Soda in the lower half of the list (70% of list length, mean slot 20.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Baking Soda
Across the 23,154 products on this site that list Baking Soda, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Baking Soda than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Baking Soda products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 2,823 | 12.2% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 2,506 | 10.8% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 2,412 | 10.4% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 2,380 | 10.3% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,949 | 8.4% | 3.4% |
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 Baking Soda
Products Containing Baking Soda
16 busy labels from the 23,154 indexed products that list Baking Soda:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Caramel Coloring”)
High-volume peers for Baking Soda: 23,154 products, mean screening score 87.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Caramel Coloring”, “Onion Powder”, “Sunflower Oil”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Baking Soda evidence
23,154 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Baking Soda are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Baking Soda and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Baking Soda next to “Onion Powder” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Baking Soda — common follow-ups
Does Baking Soda 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 Soda. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Baking Soda? ▼
Baking Soda ranks in the top decile by product count (#44 of 247,206), appearing in 23,154 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Baking Soda so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Baking Soda appears in 23,154 products (#44 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Baking Soda). 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.