Citric Acid And Salt
Citric Acid And Salt appears in 48 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 Salt appears in 48 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.
- 48
- catalogued products
- #5,109
- usage rank of 247,206
- 29
- named brands represented
- 88%
- 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 Citric Acid And Salt - usage rank #5,109
- Usage rank
- #5,109
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 66 others that also appear in exactly 48 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 88%
- Averaged label depth puts Citric Acid And Salt near the end of the captured list (88% of list length, mean slot 8.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Citric Acid And Salt spans 29 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Aidells, smoked chicken sausage, habanero & green chile; Applause, greens smoothie pack; Apple Slices Freeze Dried Fruit when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
29 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 30 of 43 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Salt
Products Containing Citric Acid And Salt
High-volume slice (16 of 48) for products naming Citric Acid And Salt:
High-volume peers for Citric Acid And Salt
Citric Acid And Salt sits among other busy catalog rows (48 products, mean score 99.9/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Citric Acid And Salt evidence
48 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Citric Acid And Salt are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Citric Acid And Salt to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Citric Acid And Salt? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Citric Acid And Salt, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,109 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Citric Acid And Salt? ▼
Citric Acid And Salt ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,109 of 247,206), appearing in 48 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Citric Acid And Salt so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Citric Acid And Salt appears in 48 products (#5,109 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citric Acid And Salt). 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.