Magnesium Carbonate
Magnesium Carbonate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 307 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Magnesium Carbonate appears in 307 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 307
- catalogued products
- #1,471
- usage rank of 247,206
- 90
- 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.
High-volume listing for Magnesium Carbonate - usage rank #1,471
- Usage rank
- #1,471
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 307 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Magnesium Carbonate in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 19.3). 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 this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 101 of 307 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 10 Grain Bread Mix; All Natural Chicken Patties; Artisan Sourdough Bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Magnesium Carbonate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
101 of 307 linked records have some flagged component
All 299 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Magnesium Carbonate
Across the 307 products on this site that list Magnesium Carbonate, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.5x more often with Magnesium Carbonate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Magnesium Carbonate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 35 | 11.4% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 30 | 9.8% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 17 | 5.5% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 16 | 5.2% | 1.8% |
| Blue 1 | 16 | 5.2% | 4.2% |
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.
Function
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
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 Magnesium Carbonate
Products Containing Magnesium Carbonate
16 busy labels from the 307 indexed products that list Magnesium Carbonate:
Magnesium Carbonate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Magnesium Carbonate sits among other busy catalog rows (307 products, mean score 92.4/100). Nearest count peers include “Paprika Extract Color”, “Vegan”, “Cashew”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Magnesium Carbonate page
Use the 307-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Magnesium Carbonate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Magnesium Carbonate with a peer such as “Paprika Extract Color” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Magnesium Carbonate
Does Magnesium Carbonate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Magnesium Carbonate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Magnesium Carbonate? ▼
Magnesium Carbonate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,471 of 247,206), appearing in 307 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Magnesium Carbonate do in food? ▼
Magnesium Carbonate is recorded as a anticaking agent or free-flow agent, drying agent, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, humectant, lubricant or release agent, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Magnesium Carbonate). 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.