Calcium Peroxide

Calcium Peroxide carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 825 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

Calcium Peroxide appears in 825 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.

825
catalogued products
#748
usage rank of 247,206
199
named brands represented
67%
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.

Calcium Peroxide sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#748 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#748
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 825 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
67%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 825 products listing it (mean slot 24.7). Calcium Peroxide 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.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 363 of 825 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Whole Wheat 8 Hamburger Buns; 100% Whole Wheat Bagels; 100% Whole Wheat Bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Calcium Peroxide itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

363 of 825 linked records have some flagged component

All 824 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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 Peroxide

Across the 825 products on this site that list Calcium Peroxide, 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. Azodicarbonamide shows up about 160.5x more often with Calcium Peroxide than in the catalogue at large.

Azodicarbonamide: +31.9ppAzodicarbonamide+31.9ppCaramel Coloring: +3.1ppCaramel Coloring+3.1ppTBHQ: +5ppTBHQ+5ppCarrageenan: -0.9ppCarrageenan-0.9ppPotassium Iodate: +3.2ppPotassium Iodate+3.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Calcium Peroxide products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Azodicarbonamide
31.9pp
Caramel Coloring
3.1pp
TBHQ
5pp
Carrageenan
-0.9pp
Potassium Iodate
3.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Calcium Peroxide products Share of all products
Azodicarbonamide 265 32.1% 0.2%
Caramel Coloring 73 8.8% 5.7%
TBHQ 45 5.5% 0.5%
Carrageenan 30 3.6% 4.5%
Potassium Iodate 28 3.4% 0.2%

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.

Function

DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING 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 Peroxide

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Calcium Peroxide
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Calcium Peroxide beside “Maltitol Syrup”

Calcium Peroxide sits among other busy catalog rows (825 products, mean score 92/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Maltitol Syrup; Ginger Puree; Romaine Lettuce. 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.

Using the Calcium Peroxide evidence

Start from Calcium Peroxide's 825 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Calcium Peroxide and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Compare Calcium Peroxide with a peer such as “Maltitol Syrup” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.

Questions readers ask about Calcium Peroxide

Does Calcium Peroxide 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 Peroxide 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 Peroxide?

Calcium Peroxide ranks in the top decile by product count (#748 of 247,206), appearing in 825 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 Peroxide do in food?

Calcium Peroxide is recorded as a dough strengthener, flour treating agent, oxidizing or reducing agent, sequestrant in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Calcium Peroxide). 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.