Citric Acid And Natural Flavor
Citric Acid And Natural Flavor appears in 32 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
Citric Acid And Natural Flavor appears in 32 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.
- 32
- catalogued products
- #6,747
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 94%
- 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: 7 of 32 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Black Bean Garlic Sauce, Chinese Style; Black bean gatlic sauce; Calorie Free Diet Cola to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 80–100 score range to Citric Acid And Natural Flavor itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
7 of 32 linked records have some flagged component
All 32 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 80–100 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.
Citric Acid And Natural Flavor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,747 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,747
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 148 others that also appear in exactly 32 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 94%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 32 products listing it (mean slot 13.8). Citric Acid And Natural Flavor usually falls near the end of the captured 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 Citric Acid And Natural Flavor
Across the 32 products on this site that list Citric Acid And Natural Flavor, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3.8x more often with Citric Acid And Natural Flavor than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Citric Acid And Natural Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 21.9% | 5.7% |
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 Citric Acid And Natural Flavor
Products Containing Citric Acid And Natural Flavor
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 32 indexed products containing Citric Acid And Natural Flavor:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Citric Acid And Natural Flavor: 32 listings averaging 97.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Citric Acid And Natural Flavor record
Start from Citric Acid And Natural Flavor's 32 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Citric Acid And Natural Flavor to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Citric Acid And Natural Flavor 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 Citric Acid And Natural Flavor. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Citric Acid And Natural Flavor? ▼
Citric Acid And Natural Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,747 of 247,206), appearing in 32 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Citric Acid And Natural Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Citric Acid And Natural Flavor appears in 32 products (#6,747 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citric Acid And Natural Flavor). 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.