Copper Citrate
Copper Citrate appears in 40 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
Copper Citrate appears in 40 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.
- 40
- catalogued products
- #5,797
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
80% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Copper Citrate as the trigger. Open records such as 30g Protein Nutritional Shake Dulce de Leche; BAR; BAR and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 76.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 64% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
80% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 40 of 40 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Copper Citrate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,797 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,797
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 40 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 40 products listing it (mean slot 28.9). Copper Citrate 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.
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 Copper Citrate
Across the 40 products on this site that list Copper Citrate, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 38.9x more often with Copper Citrate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Copper Citrate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 28 | 70% | 1.8% |
| Sucralose | 28 | 70% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 18 | 45% | 4.5% |
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 Copper Citrate
Products Containing Copper Citrate
16 busy labels from the 40 indexed products that list Copper Citrate:
Copper Citrate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Copper Citrate sits among other busy catalog rows (40 products, mean score 76.8/100). 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 Copper Citrate evidence
Start from Copper Citrate's 40 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Copper Citrate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- 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.
Copper Citrate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Copper Citrate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
80% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Copper Citrate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Copper Citrate? ▼
Copper Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 40 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Copper Citrate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Copper Citrate appears in 40 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Copper 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.