Leavening Agent
Leavening Agent appears in 189 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
Leavening Agent appears in 189 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.
- 189
- catalogued products
- #2,017
- usage rank of 247,206
- 77
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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 Leavening Agent - usage rank #2,017
- Usage rank
- #2,017
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 189 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Averaged label depth puts Leavening Agent in the lower half of the list (64% of list length, mean slot 13.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
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: Leavening Agent spans 77 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Ancient Grains Waffles; Animal crackers; Apple Cider Donuts when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
77 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 173 of 187 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Leavening Agent
Across the 189 products on this site that list Leavening Agent, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Leavening Agent products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 6 | 8 | 4.2% | 3.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 4.2% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 7 | 3.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 3.7% | 4.8% |
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 Leavening Agent
Products Containing Leavening Agent
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 189 indexed products containing Leavening Agent:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural Almond Extract”)
Top-decile company for Leavening Agent: 189 listings averaging 95.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural Almond Extract”, “Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating”, “Flaxseed Meal”.
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.
Next steps from the Leavening Agent page
189 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Leavening Agent are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Leavening Agent to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Leavening Agent next to “Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Leavening Agent
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Leavening Agent? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Leavening Agent, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,017 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Leavening Agent? ▼
Leavening Agent ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,017 of 247,206), appearing in 189 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Leavening Agent so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Leavening Agent appears in 189 products (#2,017 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Leavening Agent). 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.