Hydrogen Carbonate
Hydrogen Carbonate appears in 3 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
Hydrogen Carbonate appears in 3 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.
- 3
- catalogued products
- #35,091
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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 3 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Lindt, caramel brownie, milk chocolate with hazelnut and caramel brownie filling, milk chocolate with hazelnut and caramel brownie filling; Milk Chocolate With Hazelnut And Caramel Brownie; Saucy Noodles - Korean barbecue flavor to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Hydrogen Carbonate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Null supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1 of 3 linked records have some flagged component
All 3 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.
Upper-half catalog placement for Hydrogen Carbonate (#35,091)
- Usage rank
- #35,091
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,093 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3 products listing it (mean slot 22.7). Hydrogen Carbonate usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
Products Containing Hydrogen Carbonate
Every indexed product currently listing Hydrogen Carbonate (3 total):
Parallel catalog profiles to Hydrogen Carbonate
Use the lists below to place Hydrogen Carbonate against similar footprints (3 products).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Hydrogen Carbonate evidence
Start from Hydrogen Carbonate's 3 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Hydrogen Carbonate 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. 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.
Hydrogen Carbonate — common follow-ups
Does Hydrogen Carbonate 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 Hydrogen Carbonate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Where does Hydrogen Carbonate show up across the catalog? ▼
Hydrogen Carbonate sits above the median for catalog prevalence (3 products, #35,091 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Hydrogen Carbonate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Hydrogen Carbonate. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydrogen Carbonate). 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.