L-carnitine Fumarate

L-carnitine Fumarate appears in 7 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

L-carnitine Fumarate appears in 7 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.

7
catalogued products
#19,546
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
39%
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.

High-volume listing for L-carnitine Fumarate - usage rank #19,546

Usage rank
#19,546
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
39%
Averaged label depth puts L-carnitine Fumarate in the upper half of the list (39% of list length, mean slot 7.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: L-carnitine Fumarate spans 2 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Animal Pak Ultimate Foundation; BCAA Natural Grape; BCAA Natural Lemon Lime when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 91.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

2 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 7 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 7 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-carnitine Fumarate

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing L-carnitine Fumarate Animal Pak Ultimate FoundationBCAA Natural GrapeBCAA Natural Lemon LimeBCAA Natural Mango CoconutBCAA Natural PineappleBCAA Natural WatermelonPower Nation Recovery Blend
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for L-carnitine Fumarate: 7 listings averaging 91.4/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the L-carnitine Fumarate evidence

Use the 7-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing L-carnitine Fumarate 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. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

L-carnitine Fumarate — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on L-carnitine Fumarate?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to L-carnitine Fumarate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#19,546 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with L-carnitine Fumarate?

L-carnitine Fumarate ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is L-carnitine Fumarate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet L-carnitine Fumarate appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (L-carnitine Fumarate). 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.