Leavenings
Leavenings appears in 156 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
Leavenings appears in 156 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.
- 156
- catalogued products
- #2,296
- usage rank of 247,206
- 55
- named brands represented
- 59%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 51 of 156 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Alphabet Abc Cookies; Animal Crackrs; Animalitos, Crackers to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Leavenings 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.
51 of 156 linked records have some flagged component
All 155 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.
Leavenings sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,296 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,296
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 12 others that also appear in exactly 156 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 59%
- Averaged label depth puts Leavenings in the lower half of the list (59% of list length, mean slot 21.2). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Leavenings
Across the 156 products on this site that list Leavenings, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 15.6x more often with Leavenings than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Leavenings products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 34 | 21.8% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 19 | 12.2% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 14 | 9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 13 | 8.3% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 12 | 7.7% | 4.5% |
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 Leavenings
Products Containing Leavenings
16 busy labels from the 156 indexed products that list Leavenings:
High-volume peers for Leavenings beside “Organic Apple Cider”
High-volume peers for Leavenings: 156 products, mean screening score 90.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Apple Cider · Cashew Nuts · Chardonnay Wine. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Leavenings evidence
Start from Leavenings's 156 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Leavenings and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Leavenings next to “Cashew Nuts” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Leavenings — common follow-ups
Does Leavenings 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 Leavenings. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Leavenings? ▼
Leavenings ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,296 of 247,206), appearing in 156 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Leavenings so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Leavenings appears in 156 products (#2,296 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Leavenings). 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.