Potassium Bicarbonate
Potassium Bicarbonate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 711 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Bicarbonate appears in 711 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.
- 711
- catalogued products
- #834
- usage rank of 247,206
- 197
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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.
Potassium Bicarbonate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#834 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #834
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Averaged label depth puts Potassium Bicarbonate in the lower half of the list (63% of list length, mean slot 16.7). 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: 199 of 711 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Arabica Coffee, Mochaccino; Absopure Plus; Absopure+, Vapor Distilled Water to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Potassium Bicarbonate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
199 of 711 linked records have some flagged component
All 682 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 Potassium Bicarbonate
Across the 711 products on this site that list Potassium Bicarbonate, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.1x more often with Potassium Bicarbonate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Bicarbonate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 79 | 11.1% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 69 | 9.7% | 4.5% |
| TBHQ | 50 | 7% | 0.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 43 | 6% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 42 | 5.9% | 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
FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING 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 Potassium Bicarbonate
Products Containing Potassium Bicarbonate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 711 indexed products containing Potassium Bicarbonate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Azodicarbonamide”)
Potassium Bicarbonate sits among other busy catalog rows (711 products, mean score 90.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Azodicarbonamide”, “Condensed Milk”, “Organic Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips”. 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 Potassium Bicarbonate evidence
Use the 711-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium Bicarbonate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Potassium Bicarbonate — common follow-ups
Does Potassium Bicarbonate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Potassium Bicarbonate 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 Potassium Bicarbonate? ▼
Potassium Bicarbonate ranks in the top decile by product count (#834 of 247,206), appearing in 711 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Potassium Bicarbonate do in food? ▼
Potassium Bicarbonate is recorded as a formulation aid, leavening agent, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potassium Bicarbonate). 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.