Citric Acid As A Preservative
Citric Acid As A Preservative appears in 33 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 As A Preservative appears in 33 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.
- 33
- catalogued products
- #6,578
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 11 of 33 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 7 select, go! yum, english toffee, crisp, buttery, milk chocolate; American Singles, Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product; Archer farms, strawberry cheese danish to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Citric Acid As A Preservative itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
11 of 33 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 45–100 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 Citric Acid As A Preservative - usage rank #6,578
- Usage rank
- #6,578
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 168 others that also appear in exactly 33 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Averaged label depth puts Citric Acid As A Preservative in the lower half of the list (60% of list length, mean slot 14.4). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Citric Acid As A Preservative
Across the 33 products on this site that list Citric Acid As A Preservative, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.8x more often with Citric Acid As A Preservative than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Citric Acid As A Preservative products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 5 | 15.2% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 5 | 15.2% | 4.2% |
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 As A Preservative
Products Containing Citric Acid As A Preservative
16 busy labels from the 33 indexed products that list Citric Acid As A Preservative:
High-volume peers for Citric Acid As A Preservative
Top-decile company for Citric Acid As A Preservative: 33 listings averaging 91.1/100.
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 As A Preservative evidence
Use the 33-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Citric Acid As A Preservative 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. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 As A Preservative
Does Citric Acid As A Preservative 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 As A Preservative. 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 As A Preservative? ▼
Citric Acid As A Preservative ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,578 of 247,206), appearing in 33 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Citric Acid As A Preservative so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Citric Acid As A Preservative appears in 33 products (#6,578 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citric Acid As A Preservative). 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.