Bicarbonate Of Soda

Bicarbonate Of Soda appears in 247 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

Bicarbonate Of Soda appears in 247 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.

247
catalogued products
#1,697
usage rank of 247,206
108
named brands represented
72%
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.

High-volume listing for Bicarbonate Of Soda - usage rank #1,697

Usage rank
#1,697
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 247 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
72%
Averaged label depth puts Bicarbonate Of Soda in the lower half of the list (72% of list length, mean slot 15.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 17.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bicarbonate Of Soda spans 108 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Albanese, Triple Dipped Malt Balls; American Gra-Frutti, Gluten Free Gourmet Cupcakes; American Gra-Frutti, You Love Chocolate Chip Cake when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 89.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

108 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 202 of 241 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.

Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.

What else is usually in the same product as Bicarbonate Of Soda

Across the 247 products on this site that list Bicarbonate Of 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. Blue 1 shows up about 2.2x more often with Bicarbonate Of Soda than in the catalogue at large.

Blue 1: +5.1ppBlue 1+5.1ppRed 40: +3.1ppRed 40+3.1ppRed 3: +7ppRed 3+7ppYellow 5: +2.5ppYellow 5+2.5ppTitanium Dioxide: +4ppTitanium Dioxide+4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Bicarbonate Of Soda products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Blue 1
5.1pp
Red 40
3.1pp
Red 3
7pp
Yellow 5
2.5pp
Titanium Dioxide
4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Bicarbonate Of Soda products Share of all products
Blue 1 23 9.3% 4.2%
Red 40 21 8.5% 5.4%
Red 3 20 8.1% 1.1%
Yellow 5 18 7.3% 4.8%
Titanium Dioxide 15 6.1% 2.1%

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 Bicarbonate Of Soda

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Bicarbonate Of Soda
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.

Bicarbonate Of Soda vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Bicarbonate Of Soda: 247 products, mean screening score 89.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Gum Tragacanth · Or Less Of Citric Acid · Or Less Of Water. 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.

Next steps from the Bicarbonate Of Soda page

Start from Bicarbonate Of Soda's 247 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Bicarbonate Of Soda and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Compare Bicarbonate Of Soda with a peer such as “Gum Tragacanth” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

Bicarbonate Of Soda — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Bicarbonate Of Soda?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bicarbonate Of Soda, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,697 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Bicarbonate Of Soda?

Bicarbonate Of Soda ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,697 of 247,206), appearing in 247 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Bicarbonate Of Soda so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bicarbonate Of Soda appears in 247 products (#1,697 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bicarbonate Of 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.