Citrate
Citrate appears in 46 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
Citrate appears in 46 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.
- 46
- catalogued products
- #5,260
- usage rank of 247,206
- 38
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 16 of 46 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Almond Creamer Caramel Vanilla; AMERICAN PASTEURIZED PREPARED CHEESE PRODUCT; Better Sour to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Citrate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages and beverages preparations supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
16 of 46 linked records have some flagged component
All 45 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.
High-volume listing for Citrate - usage rank #5,260
- Usage rank
- #5,260
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 46 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 46 products listing it (mean slot 12.8). 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.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Citrate
Across the 46 products on this site that list 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 6.4x more often with Citrate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Citrate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 8 | 17.4% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 10.9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 5 | 10.9% | 4.8% |
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 Citrate
Products Containing Citrate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 46 indexed products containing Citrate:
High-volume peers for Citrate
High-volume peers for Citrate: 46 products, mean screening score 86.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Citrate page
46 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Citrate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Citrate 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. 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.
Citrate — common follow-ups
Does 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. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Citrate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Citrate? ▼
Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,260 of 247,206), appearing in 46 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Citrate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Citrate appears in 46 products (#5,260 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (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.