Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous Oxide carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 181 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Nitrous Oxide appears in 181 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” 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.
- 181
- catalogued products
- #2,075
- usage rank of 247,206
- 62
- named brands represented
- 97%
- 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.
Nitrous Oxide sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,075 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,075
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 181 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 97%
- Averaged label depth puts Nitrous Oxide near the end of the captured list (97% of list length, mean slot 9.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
59.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Nitrous Oxide as the trigger. Open records such as Ahold dairy whipped topping peppermint; Barista Cold Foam White Chocolate; Butterbeer Cold Foam Creamer and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 95.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 97% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
59.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 181 of 181 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 Nitrous Oxide
Across the 181 products on this site that list Nitrous Oxide, 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 12.3x more often with Nitrous Oxide than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Nitrous Oxide products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 100 | 55.2% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 14 | 7.7% | 1.3% |
| Sucralose | 6 | 3.3% | 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.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, 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 Nitrous Oxide
Products Containing Nitrous Oxide
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 181 indexed products containing Nitrous Oxide:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cooked White Meat Chicken”)
Nitrous Oxide sits among other busy catalog rows (181 products, mean score 95.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Cooked White Meat Chicken”, “Lactobacillus Bulgaricus”, “Rye Meal”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Nitrous Oxide evidence
Use the 181-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Nitrous Oxide and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Nitrous Oxide
How should I read safety signals when Nitrous Oxide sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
59.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Nitrous Oxide is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Nitrous Oxide scores 5/5 on this site's screening scale and CSPI lists it as "Safe" 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 Nitrous Oxide? ▼
Nitrous Oxide ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,075 of 247,206), appearing in 181 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Nitrous Oxide serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Nitrous Oxide is recorded as a flavor enhancer, 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 (Nitrous Oxide). 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.