Garlic Citric Acid
Garlic Citric Acid appears in 17 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
Garlic Citric Acid appears in 17 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.
- 17
- catalogued products
- #10,499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 76%
- 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.
Garlic Citric Acid sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#10,499 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #10,499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 444 others that also appear in exactly 17 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 76%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 17 products listing it (mean slot 15.9). Garlic Citric Acid usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Garlic Citric Acid spans 13 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 5 Cheese Pizza, 5 Cheese; Annie chun's, soup bowl,medium thai style tom yum; Chicken In A Roasted Red Bell Pepper Cream Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
13 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 14 of 17 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Garlic Citric Acid
Products Containing Garlic Citric Acid
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 17 indexed products containing Garlic Citric Acid:
Garlic Citric Acid vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Garlic Citric Acid: 17 products, mean screening score 99.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Garlic Citric Acid record
Start from Garlic Citric Acid's 17 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Garlic Citric Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Garlic Citric Acid — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Garlic Citric Acid? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Garlic Citric Acid, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,499 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Garlic Citric Acid? ▼
Garlic Citric Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,499 of 247,206), appearing in 17 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Garlic Citric Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Garlic Citric Acid appears in 17 products (#10,499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Garlic Citric 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.