Nitrogen
Nitrogen carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 77 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Nitrogen appears in 77 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.
- 77
- catalogued products
- #3,740
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 98%
- 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 Nitrogen - usage rank #3,740
- Usage rank
- #3,740
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 26 others that also appear in exactly 77 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 98%
- Mean relative depth 98% across 77 parsed labels, slot 17.2 on average. Nitrogen tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
53.2% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Nitrogen as the trigger. Open records such as Caramel cold foam; cherry cheesecake; chocolate and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 98% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 77 of 77 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Nitrogen
Across the 77 products on this site that list Nitrogen, 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 20.9x more often with Nitrogen than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Nitrogen products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 29 | 37.7% | 1.8% |
| Sucralose | 29 | 37.7% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 14.3% | 5.7% |
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.
Function
ANTIOXIDANT, FORMULATION AID, PROPELLANT
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 Nitrogen
Products Containing Nitrogen
High-volume slice (16 of 77) for products naming Nitrogen:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added As An Antioxidant”)
Top-decile company for Nitrogen: 77 listings averaging 87.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added As An Antioxidant · Beurre De Cacao · Black Peppercorn.
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 Nitrogen evidence
Use the 77-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Nitrogen before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Nitrogen next to “Beurre De Cacao” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Nitrogen
How should I read safety signals when Nitrogen sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53.2% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Nitrogen is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Nitrogen scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Nitrogen? ▼
Nitrogen ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,740 of 247,206), appearing in 77 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Nitrogen serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Nitrogen is recorded as a antioxidant, formulation aid, propellant in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Nitrogen). 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.