Leavening Agents
Leavening Agents appears in 299 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 Agents appears in 299 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.
- 299
- catalogued products
- #1,494
- usage rank of 247,206
- 109
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 94 of 299 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Adobo Mexican Condiment; Animal shaped biscuits; Apple Pie to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Leavening Agents itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
94 of 299 linked records have some flagged component
All 298 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Leavening Agents: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,494 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,494
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 299 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 299 parsed labels, slot 16.4 on average. Leavening Agents tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Leavening Agents
Across the 299 products on this site that list Leavening Agents, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.6x more often with Leavening Agents than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Leavening Agents products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 45 | 15.1% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 32 | 10.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 27 | 9% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 22 | 7.4% | 5.4% |
| TBHQ | 20 | 6.7% | 0.5% |
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 Agents
Products Containing Leavening Agents
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 299 indexed products containing Leavening Agents:
Leavening Agents vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Leavening Agents: 299 listings averaging 88.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Powdered Cellulose To Prevent Caking; Prevents Caking; Vegetable Glycerine.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Leavening Agents page
299 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Leavening Agents are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Leavening Agents 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. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Leavening Agents 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 Leavening Agents. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Leavening Agents? ▼
Leavening Agents ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,494 of 247,206), appearing in 299 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Leavening Agents so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Leavening Agents appears in 299 products (#1,494 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Leavening Agents). 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.