Citrate Acid
Citrate Acid appears in 4 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 Acid appears in 4 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.
- 4
- catalogued products
- #28,812
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 84%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Artisan Nut Thins Asiago Cheese Cracker Snacks; Campbell'S, Spaghetti O'S; Honey peach jelly to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Citrate Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Canned foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component
All 4 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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.
Citrate Acid: above-median product count (beats 88.3% of ranked ingredients)
- Usage rank
- #28,812
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 84%
- Mean relative depth 84% across 4 parsed labels, slot 15.5 on average. Citrate Acid tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 4 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 Acid
Products Containing Citrate Acid
Full indexed set for Citrate Acid — 4 products:
Ingredients with similar product-count or score profiles
Peer axes for Citrate Acid: 4 products · mean score 98.8/100.
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 Acid page
4 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Citrate Acid are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Citrate Acid before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Citrate Acid — common follow-ups
Does Citrate Acid 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 Acid. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Where does Citrate Acid show up across the catalog? ▼
Citrate Acid sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 4 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Citrate Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Citrate Acid. Its near the end of the captured list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citrate 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.