Calcium Citrate
Calcium Citrate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 769 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Calcium Citrate appears in 769 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.
- 769
- catalogued products
- #786
- usage rank of 247,206
- 207
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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 Citrate - usage rank #786
- Usage rank
- #786
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 769 products listing it (mean slot 12.7). Calcium Citrate 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. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 174 of 769 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Florida Orange Juice; 100% juice; 100% juice blend to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Calcium Citrate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
174 of 769 linked records have some flagged component
All 763 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Calcium Citrate
Across the 769 products on this site that list Calcium Citrate, 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 2.8x more often with Calcium Citrate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Calcium Citrate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 58 | 7.5% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 52 | 6.8% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 46 | 6% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 40 | 5.2% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 34 | 4.4% | 4.5% |
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
FIRMING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
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 Citrate
Products Containing Calcium Citrate
High-volume slice (16 of 769) for products naming Calcium Citrate:
Calcium Citrate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Calcium Citrate: 769 products, mean screening score 93.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Monopotassium Phosphate; Mineral Oil; Sweet Potato. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Calcium Citrate evidence
Use the 769-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Calcium Citrate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Calcium Citrate next to “Mineral Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Calcium Citrate — common follow-ups
Does Calcium Citrate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Calcium Citrate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Calcium Citrate? ▼
Calcium Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#786 of 247,206), appearing in 769 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Calcium Citrate do in food? ▼
Calcium Citrate is recorded as a firming agent, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, sequestrant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Citrate). 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.