Nicotinamide
Nicotinamide appears in 128 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
Nicotinamide appears in 128 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.
- 128
- catalogued products
- #2,639
- usage rank of 247,206
- 55
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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.
Nicotinamide: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,639 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,639
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 128 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 128 products listing it (mean slot 13.5). Nicotinamide 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.
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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Nicotinamide spans 55 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 7-Select Fusion Pulse; A delicious baked cheesecake on a chocolate biscuit base topped with toblerone's smooth milk chocolate; A Mix For Yorkshire Puddings & Pancakes when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
55 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 97 of 124 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Nicotinamide
Across the 128 products on this site that list Nicotinamide, 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. Sucralose shows up about 2.6x more often with Nicotinamide than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Nicotinamide products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 9 | 7% | 2.7% |
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 Nicotinamide
Products Containing Nicotinamide
High-volume slice (16 of 128) for products naming Nicotinamide:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Natural Whole Grain Rolled Oats”)
High-volume peers for Nicotinamide: 128 products, mean screening score 96.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Natural Whole Grain Rolled Oats; Artificial Flavour; Organic Chicken Bone Broth. 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.
Next steps from the Nicotinamide page
Use the 128-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Nicotinamide 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.
Nicotinamide — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Nicotinamide? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Nicotinamide, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,639 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Nicotinamide? ▼
Nicotinamide ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,639 of 247,206), appearing in 128 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Nicotinamide so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Nicotinamide appears in 128 products (#2,639 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Nicotinamide). 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.