Hydrochloride
Hydrochloride appears in 100 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
Hydrochloride appears in 100 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.
- 100
- catalogued products
- #3,132
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 42 of 100 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 Day Grass Fed Infant Formula with Iron; Artisan Whole Grain Bread; Banana Oatmeal to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to Hydrochloride itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
42 of 100 linked records have some flagged component
All 99 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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.
Hydrochloride: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,132 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,132
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 100 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Mean relative depth 70% across 100 parsed labels, slot 25.0 on average. Hydrochloride tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Hydrochloride
Across the 100 products on this site that list Hydrochloride, 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. Sucralose shows up about 6.3x more often with Hydrochloride than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Hydrochloride products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 17 | 17% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 9% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 8 | 8% | 0.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 7% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 7 | 7% | 1.1% |
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.
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 Hydrochloride
Products Containing Hydrochloride
High-volume slice (16 of 100) for products naming Hydrochloride:
High-volume peers for Hydrochloride beside “Annatto And Turmeric Color”
Hydrochloride sits among other busy catalog rows (100 products, mean score 86.4/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Annatto And Turmeric Color; Cheddar Cheese Sauce; Cherry Tomatoes. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Hydrochloride evidence
100 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Hydrochloride are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Hydrochloride to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Hydrochloride with a peer such as “Annatto And Turmeric Color” 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 Hydrochloride
Does Hydrochloride 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 Hydrochloride. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hydrochloride? ▼
Hydrochloride ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,132 of 247,206), appearing in 100 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Hydrochloride so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Hydrochloride appears in 100 products (#3,132 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydrochloride). 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.