Food Acids
Food Acids appears in 26 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
Food Acids appears in 26 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.
- 26
- catalogued products
- #7,791
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
57.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Food Acids as the trigger. Open records such as Ayam brand, sardines in teriyaki sauce; Blue bunny, premium ice cream, banana split; Blueberry Rush and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 84.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 41% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 26 of 26 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.
High-volume listing for Food Acids - usage rank #7,791
- Usage rank
- #7,791
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 209 others that also appear in exactly 26 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Mean relative depth 41% across 26 parsed labels, slot 10.4 on average. Food Acids tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
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 Food Acids
Products Containing Food Acids
16 busy labels from the 26 indexed products that list Food Acids:
High-volume peers for Food Acids
Top-decile company for Food Acids: 26 listings averaging 84.2/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Food Acids record
26 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Food Acids are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Food Acids before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Food Acids
How should I read safety signals when Food Acids sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Food Acids is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Food Acids? ▼
Food Acids ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,791 of 247,206), appearing in 26 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Food Acids so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Food Acids appears in 26 products (#7,791 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Food Acids). 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.