Boric Acid
Boric Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 9 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Boric Acid appears in 9 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Prior Sanctioned.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 9
- catalogued products
- #16,390
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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 Boric Acid - usage rank #16,390
- Usage rank
- #16,390
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Averaged label depth puts Boric Acid in the upper half of the list (46% of list length, mean slot 10.3). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Boric Acid spans 5 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Calcium Citrate Magnesium and Zinc; Calcium et magnésium marine minéral complex; Fresh & Clean when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 5 of 5 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.
Function
LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 9 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 Boric Acid
Products Containing Boric Acid
A sample of 9 high-volume listings among the 9 indexed products containing Boric Acid:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Boric Acid: 9 products, mean screening score 97.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Boric Acid page
Start from Boric Acid's 9 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Boric Acid before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- 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.
Boric Acid — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Boric Acid? ▼
Boric Acid has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Prior Sanctioned. With only 11.1% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Boric Acid? ▼
Boric Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Boric Acid do in food? ▼
Boric Acid is recorded as a lubricant or release agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Boric Acid). 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.