L-aspartic Acid
L-aspartic Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 27 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
L-aspartic Acid appears in 27 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 27
- catalogued products
- #7,605
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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.
L-aspartic Acid: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,605 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,605
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 185 others that also appear in exactly 27 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts L-aspartic Acid in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 18.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 13 of 27 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1,000mg Vitamin C Pink Lemonade; Drink; Emergen-C to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to L-aspartic Acid itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dietary supplements supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
13 of 27 linked records have some flagged component
All 27 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 L-aspartic Acid
Products Containing L-aspartic Acid
High-volume slice (16 of 27) for products naming L-aspartic Acid:
High-volume peers for L-aspartic Acid
Top-decile company for L-aspartic Acid: 27 listings averaging 95.2/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the L-aspartic Acid evidence
Start from L-aspartic Acid's 27 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing L-aspartic Acid before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 L-aspartic Acid
Does L-aspartic Acid carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. L-aspartic Acid itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with L-aspartic Acid? ▼
L-aspartic Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,605 of 247,206), appearing in 27 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does L-aspartic Acid do in food? ▼
L-aspartic Acid is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (L-aspartic 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.