Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid
Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid appears in 4 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. Ascorbic Acid appears in 4 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.
- 4
- catalogued products
- #28,812
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Fruit Snack; Grimmway Farms, Fruit & Vegetable Juices; Stadium buns, onion brat with poppyseed to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component
All 4 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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. Ascorbic Acid ranks above 88.3% of catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #28,812
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4 products listing it (mean slot 13.0). Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 4 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. Ascorbic Acid
Products Containing Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid
Full indexed set for Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid — 4 products:
Ingredients with similar product-count or score profiles
Peer axes for Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid: 4 products · mean score 81.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid evidence
4 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the 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. Ascorbic Acid
Does Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid 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. Ascorbic Acid. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Where does Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid show up across the catalog? ▼
Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 4 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citric Acid. Ascorbic Acid). 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.