Buffered Lactic Acid
Buffered Lactic Acid appears in 40 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
Buffered Lactic Acid appears in 40 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.
- 40
- catalogued products
- #5,797
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
90% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Buffered Lactic Acid as the trigger. Open records such as Baby Candy; Bazooka Candy Brands, Ringpop, Watermelon; Berry Chewy Lemonhead & Friends Fruit Candy and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 60.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 46% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
90% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 40 of 40 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Buffered Lactic Acid - usage rank #5,797
- Usage rank
- #5,797
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 40 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Averaged label depth puts Buffered Lactic Acid in the upper half of the list (46% of list length, mean slot 6.0). 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 Buffered Lactic Acid
Across the 40 products on this site that list Buffered Lactic Acid, 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. Red 40 shows up about 9.3x more often with Buffered Lactic Acid than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Buffered Lactic Acid products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 20 | 50% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 12 | 30% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 12 | 30% | 4.8% |
| Red 3 | 10 | 25% | 1.1% |
| Blue 1 | 9 | 22.5% | 4.2% |
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 Buffered Lactic Acid
Products Containing Buffered Lactic Acid
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 40 indexed products containing Buffered Lactic Acid:
Buffered Lactic Acid vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Buffered Lactic Acid: 40 listings averaging 60.4/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Buffered Lactic Acid record
40 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Buffered Lactic Acid are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Buffered Lactic Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Buffered Lactic Acid
How should I read safety signals when Buffered Lactic Acid sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
90% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Buffered Lactic Acid is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Buffered Lactic Acid? ▼
Buffered Lactic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 40 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Buffered Lactic Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Buffered Lactic Acid appears in 40 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Buffered Lactic 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.