Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen Peroxide carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 6 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Hydrogen Peroxide appears in 6 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 6
- catalogued products
- #21,732
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
Hydrogen Peroxide: top-decile catalog footprint (#21,732 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #21,732
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 6 products listing it (mean slot 11.3). Hydrogen Peroxide usually falls in the upper half of the 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 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Hydrogen Peroxide spans 3 named brands and is led by the Disinfectant group. Start with Essentials Liquid Hand Soap; Hydrogen Peroxide; Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaner when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
3 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2 of 2 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.
Function
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FUMIGANT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 6 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 Hydrogen Peroxide
Products Containing Hydrogen Peroxide
6 busy labels from the 6 indexed products that list Hydrogen Peroxide:
Hydrogen Peroxide vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Hydrogen Peroxide sits among other busy catalog rows (6 products, mean score 95.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Hydrogen Peroxide evidence
Start from Hydrogen Peroxide's 6 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Hydrogen Peroxide before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Hydrogen Peroxide — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about Hydrogen Peroxide? ▼
Hydrogen Peroxide has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 16.7% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hydrogen Peroxide? ▼
Hydrogen Peroxide ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Disinfectant. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Hydrogen Peroxide do in food? ▼
Hydrogen Peroxide is recorded as a antimicrobial agent, dough strengthener, flour treating agent, fumigant, oxidizing or reducing agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydrogen Peroxide). 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.