Erythorbic Acid
Erythorbic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 374 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Erythorbic Acid appears in 374 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 374
- catalogued products
- #1,265
- usage rank of 247,206
- 87
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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.
Erythorbic Acid: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,265 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,265
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 374 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Averaged label depth puts Erythorbic Acid near the end of the captured list (78% of list length, mean slot 14.2). 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 to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 170 of 374 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Muscadine Grape Juice; Apple Fritters 3pk; Apple Pie Filling to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Erythorbic Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Cooking helpers supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
170 of 374 linked records have some flagged component
All 371 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Erythorbic Acid
Across the 374 products on this site that list Erythorbic Acid, 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. Red 40 shows up about 3x more often with Erythorbic Acid than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Erythorbic Acid products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 61 | 16.3% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 48 | 12.8% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 41 | 11% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 24 | 6.4% | 4.5% |
| Blue 1 | 15 | 4% | 4.2% |
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.
Function
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Erythorbic Acid
Products Containing Erythorbic Acid
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 374 indexed products containing Erythorbic Acid:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Organic High Oleic Safflower Oil”)
Erythorbic Acid sits among other busy catalog rows (374 products, mean score 88.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Organic High Oleic Safflower Oil”, “Organic Pine Nuts”, “L. Rhamnosus”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Erythorbic Acid page
Use the 374-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 Erythorbic Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Erythorbic 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. Erythorbic Acid itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Erythorbic Acid? ▼
Erythorbic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,265 of 247,206), appearing in 374 indexed products led by Cooking helpers. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Erythorbic Acid do in food? ▼
Erythorbic Acid is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, antioxidant, color or coloring adjunct, curing or pickling agent, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Erythorbic 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.