Folic Acid
Folic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 58,687 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Folic Acid appears in 58,687 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 58,687
- catalogued products
- #6
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5,452
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Folic Acid - usage rank #6
- Usage rank
- #6
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Averaged label depth puts Folic Acid in the upper half of the list (43% of list length, mean slot 12.8). 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: 19745 of 58687 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0016500579793; 1 donut; 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Folic Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
19745 of 58,687 linked records have some flagged component
All 57582 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 Folic Acid
Across the 58,687 products on this site that list Folic 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2x more often with Folic Acid than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Folic Acid products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6,686 | 11.4% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 4,684 | 8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 4,441 | 7.6% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 3,892 | 6.6% | 3.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 3,726 | 6.3% | 1.4% |
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
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Folic Acid
Products Containing Folic Acid
16 busy labels from the 58,687 indexed products that list Folic Acid:
Folic Acid vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Folic Acid: 58,687 products, mean screening score 88.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Riboflavin · Natural Flavor · Niacin. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
What to do with this Folic Acid record
Use the 58,687-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Folic Acid before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Folic Acid with a peer such as “Riboflavin” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Folic Acid
Does Folic 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. Folic Acid itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" 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 Folic Acid? ▼
Folic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#6 of 247,206), appearing in 58,687 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Folic Acid do in food? ▼
Folic Acid is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Folic 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.