Enriched With Niacin

Enriched With Niacin appears in 971 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

Enriched With Niacin appears in 971 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.

971
catalogued products
#673
usage rank of 247,206
210
named brands represented
20%
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: 333 of 971 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3 Cheese & Spinach Ravioli; 3 Cheese Ravioli; 3 Cheese Ravioli Durum Semolina & Egg Pasta Stuffed With 3 Cheeses to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Enriched With Niacin itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

333 of 971 linked records have some flagged component

All 964 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.

Enriched With Niacin: top-decile catalog footprint (#673 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#673
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 971 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
20%
Averaged label depth puts Enriched With Niacin near the top of the captured list (20% of list length, mean slot 8.5). 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 Enriched With Niacin

Across the 971 products on this site that list Enriched With Niacin, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.6x more often with Enriched With Niacin than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +9.4ppCaramel Coloring+9.4ppCarrageenan: +5.9ppCarrageenan+5.9ppSodium Nitrite: +1.9ppSodium Nitrite+1.9ppRed 40: -2.3ppRed 40-2.3ppYellow 5: -2.4ppYellow 5-2.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Enriched With Niacin products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
9.4pp
Carrageenan
5.9pp
Sodium Nitrite
1.9pp
Red 40
-2.3pp
Yellow 5
-2.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Enriched With Niacin products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 147 15.1% 5.7%
Carrageenan 101 10.4% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 42 4.3% 2.4%
Red 40 30 3.1% 5.4%
Yellow 5 23 2.4% 4.8%

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 Enriched With Niacin

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Enriched With Niacin
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Apricots”)

Top-decile company for Enriched With Niacin: 971 listings averaging 94.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Apricots · Palm And Palm Kernel Oil · Glycerol.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Enriched With Niacin evidence

Use the 971-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 Enriched With Niacin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Enriched With Niacin 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 Enriched With Niacin. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Enriched With Niacin?

Enriched With Niacin ranks in the top decile by product count (#673 of 247,206), appearing in 971 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Enriched With Niacin so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Enriched With Niacin appears in 971 products (#673 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Enriched With Niacin). 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.