Calcium Ascorbate
Calcium Ascorbate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 326 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Ascorbate appears in 326 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 326
- catalogued products
- #1,399
- usage rank of 247,206
- 82
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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 Calcium Ascorbate - usage rank #1,399
- Usage rank
- #1,399
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 326 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Calcium Ascorbate in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 8.9). 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 12.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Calcium Ascorbate spans 82 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 6 Essential Electrolytes Daily Electrolyte Drink Mix; 6 Essential Electrolytes Daily Electrolyte Drink Mix Summer Splash Variety Pack; 6 Essential Electrolytes Fruitastic Variety Pack Daily Electrolyte Drink Mix Non-gmo when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
82 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 234 of 310 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 Calcium Ascorbate
Across the 326 products on this site that list Calcium Ascorbate, 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. Sucralose shows up about 1.6x more often with Calcium Ascorbate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Ascorbate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 14 | 4.3% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 4% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 8 | 2.5% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 2.1% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 1.8% | 2.4% |
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.
Function
ANTIOXIDANT
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 Calcium Ascorbate
Products Containing Calcium Ascorbate
High-volume slice (16 of 326) for products naming Calcium Ascorbate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Artificial Vanilla Flavor”)
Calcium Ascorbate sits among other busy catalog rows (326 products, mean score 98.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Artificial Vanilla Flavor; Hydrolyzed Corn; Kidney Beans. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Calcium Ascorbate page
Start from Calcium Ascorbate's 326 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Calcium Ascorbate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Calcium Ascorbate with a peer such as “Artificial Vanilla Flavor” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Calcium Ascorbate
What do the source ratings say about Calcium Ascorbate? ▼
Calcium Ascorbate has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 12.6% 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 Calcium Ascorbate? ▼
Calcium Ascorbate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,399 of 247,206), appearing in 326 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Calcium Ascorbate do in food? ▼
Calcium Ascorbate is recorded as a antioxidant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Ascorbate). 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.