Niacin
Niacin carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 53,405 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Niacin appears in 53,405 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.
- 53,405
- catalogued products
- #8
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5,396
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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.
Niacin: top-decile catalog footprint (#8 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Mean relative depth 20% across 53,412 parsed labels, slot 6.8 on average. Niacin tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 17050 of 53405 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 donut; 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx; 1-2-3 gluten free, southern glory, biscuits baking mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Niacin itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
17050 of 53,405 linked records have some flagged component
All 52288 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 Niacin
Across the 53,405 products on this site that list Niacin, 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 1.9x more often with Niacin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Niacin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5,806 | 10.9% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 4,058 | 7.6% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 3,994 | 7.5% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 3,734 | 7% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 3,356 | 6.3% | 3.4% |
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
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Niacin
Products Containing Niacin
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 53,405 indexed products containing Niacin:
High-volume peers for Niacin beside “Wheat Flour”
High-volume peers for Niacin: 53,405 products, mean screening score 89.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Wheat Flour”, “Soy Lecithin”, “Riboflavin”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Niacin evidence
Use the 53,405-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Niacin and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Niacin
Does Niacin carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Niacin 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 Niacin? ▼
Niacin ranks in the top decile by product count (#8 of 247,206), appearing in 53,405 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Niacin do in food? ▼
Niacin is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Niacin). 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.