Citric Acid Natural Flavors
Citric Acid Natural Flavors appears in 8 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 Natural Flavors appears in 8 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.
- 8
- catalogued products
- #17,814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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: 2 of 8 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Daily Hydration Cucumber Citrus; Kroger, vitamin enhanced water beverage, blood orange; Lemon Pepper Flavored Fully-Cooked Rotisserie Chicken to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Citric Acid Natural Flavors itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2 of 8 linked records have some flagged component
All 7 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 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 Natural Flavors sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#17,814 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #17,814
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Averaged label depth puts Citric Acid Natural Flavors in the upper half of the list (48% of list length, mean slot 5.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 8 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 Natural Flavors
Products Containing Citric Acid Natural Flavors
8 busy labels from the 8 indexed products that list Citric Acid Natural Flavors:
High-volume peers for Citric Acid Natural Flavors
Citric Acid Natural Flavors sits among other busy catalog rows (8 products, mean score 96.3/100). 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 Natural Flavors evidence
Start from Citric Acid Natural Flavors's 8 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Citric Acid Natural Flavors and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Citric Acid Natural Flavors
Does Citric Acid Natural Flavors 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 Natural Flavors. 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 Natural Flavors? ▼
Citric Acid Natural Flavors ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Citric Acid Natural Flavors so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Citric Acid Natural Flavors appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citric Acid Natural Flavors). 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.