Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate

Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate appears in 63 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 Sodium Citrate appears in 63 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.

63
catalogued products
#4,249
usage rank of 247,206
25
named brands represented
98%
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.

Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,249 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#4,249
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 52 others that also appear in exactly 63 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
98%
Mean relative depth 98% across 63 parsed labels, slot 5.6 on average. Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 1.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate spans 25 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Apple jelly; Apple Jelly; Buena Carrotena, Juice Drink, Mango & Carrot when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

25 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 62 of 62 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 Sodium Citrate

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate
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.

Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate sits among other busy catalog rows (63 products, mean score 99.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 2% Or Less Of Vegetable Oil; Acai Powder; Organic Acerola Extract. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate evidence

63 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Place Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate next to “Acai Powder” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • 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 Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,249 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate?

Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,249 of 247,206), appearing in 63 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 Sodium Citrate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Citric Acid And Sodium Citrate appears in 63 products (#4,249 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citric Acid And Sodium 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.