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
#1,699
usage rank of 248,027
109
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.

Where Bicarbonate Of Soda sits among catalogued ingredients

Usage rank
#1,699
of 248,027 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%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 247 products listing it (mean slot 15.6). Bicarbonate Of Soda usually falls in the lower 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. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How to use this page

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 109 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.

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.

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, 2026-08-02.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Bicarbonate Of Soda safe to eat?

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 for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.

What products contain Bicarbonate Of Soda?

Bicarbonate Of Soda is found in 247 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.

What does Bicarbonate Of Soda do in food?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Bicarbonate Of Soda. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.

Citation notes Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.

Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.

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