Citric Fiber
Citric Fiber appears in 13 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 Fiber appears in 13 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.
- 13
- catalogued products
- #12,640
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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 Fiber: top-decile catalog footprint (#12,640 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #12,640
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 716 others that also appear in exactly 13 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Averaged label depth puts Citric Fiber near the end of the captured list (81% of list length, mean slot 19.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Citric Fiber spans 3 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Brooklyn Black & White Cookies; Brooklyn Halloween Cookies; French Onion Dip when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
3 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 13 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 13 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 Fiber
Products Containing Citric Fiber
High-volume slice (13 of 13) for products naming Citric Fiber:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Citric Fiber: 13 listings averaging 98.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Citric Fiber record
Start from Citric Fiber's 13 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Citric Fiber to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
Citric Fiber — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Citric Fiber? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Citric Fiber, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#12,640 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Citric Fiber? ▼
Citric Fiber ranks in the top decile by product count (#12,640 of 247,206), appearing in 13 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Citric Fiber so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Citric Fiber appears in 13 products (#12,640 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Citric Fiber). 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.