Folic Agid
Folic Agid appears in 5 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
Folic Agid appears in 5 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.
- 5
- catalogued products
- #24,708
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 5 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Stir Fry Rice with Noodles; easy fresh; olive oil bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Folic Agid itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and the leading captured category supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1 of 5 linked records have some flagged component
All 5 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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.
Folic Agid sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#24,708 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #24,708
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 24%
- Mean relative depth 24% across 5 parsed labels, slot 8.0 on average. Folic Agid tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 5 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 Agid
Products Containing Folic Agid
5 busy labels from the 5 indexed products that list Folic Agid:
High-volume peers for Folic Agid
Top-decile company for Folic Agid: 5 listings averaging 99/100.
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 Folic Agid page
Start from Folic Agid's 5 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Folic Agid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Agid
Does Folic Agid 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 Folic Agid. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Folic Agid? ▼
Folic Agid ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Folic Agid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Folic Agid appears in 5 products (#24,708 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Folic Agid). 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.