Or Less Of Sodium Citrate

Or Less Of Sodium Citrate appears in 67 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

Or Less Of Sodium Citrate appears in 67 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.

67
catalogued products
#4,097
usage rank of 247,206
18
named brands represented
38%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Or Less Of Sodium Citrate as the trigger. Open records such as Cherry sugar free low calorie gelatin dessert, cherry; Gelatin Dessert; Gelatin Dessert and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 34.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 38% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 67 of 67 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Or Less Of Sodium Citrate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,097 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#4,097
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 33 others that also appear in exactly 67 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
38%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 67 products listing it (mean slot 6.9). Or Less Of Sodium Citrate usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Or Less Of Sodium Citrate

Across the 67 products on this site that list Or Less Of Sodium Citrate, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 51.4x more often with Or Less Of Sodium Citrate than in the catalogue at large.

Acesulfame Potassium: +90.7ppAcesulfame Potassium+90.7ppAspartame: +85.7ppAspartame+85.7ppRed 40: +45.3ppRed 40+45.3ppBlue 1: +39.1ppBlue 1+39.1ppBHA: +27.7ppBHA+27.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Or Less Of Sodium Citrate products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Acesulfame Potassium
90.7pp
Aspartame
85.7pp
Red 40
45.3pp
Blue 1
39.1pp
BHA
27.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of Or Less Of Sodium Citrate products Share of all products
Acesulfame Potassium 62 92.5% 1.8%
Aspartame 58 86.6% 0.9%
Red 40 34 50.7% 5.4%
Blue 1 29 43.3% 4.2%
BHA 19 28.4% 0.7%

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 Or Less Of Sodium Citrate

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 16 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 020406080 123456 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Or Less Of Sodium Citrate
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 (near “Acesulfame”)

High-volume peers for Or Less Of Sodium Citrate: 67 products, mean screening score 34.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Acesulfame”, “Added To Promote Color Retention”, “Brandy”. 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

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

Using the Or Less Of Sodium Citrate evidence

67 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Or Less Of Sodium Citrate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Or Less Of Sodium Citrate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Or Less Of Sodium Citrate next to “Added To Promote Color Retention” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read safety signals when Or Less Of Sodium Citrate sits in heavily flagged products?

100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Or Less Of Sodium Citrate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Or Less Of Sodium Citrate?

Or Less Of Sodium Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,097 of 247,206), appearing in 67 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Or Less Of Sodium Citrate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Or Less Of Sodium Citrate appears in 67 products (#4,097 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Or Less Of Sodium Citrate). 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.