Potassium Citrate
Potassium Citrate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 5,004 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potassium Citrate appears in 5,004 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.
- 5,004
- catalogued products
- #210
- usage rank of 247,206
- 774
- 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.
Potassium Citrate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#210 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #210
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Mean relative depth 47% across 5,005 parsed labels, slot 9.1 on average. Potassium Citrate tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
65.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Potassium Citrate as the trigger. Open records such as 100 calories protein nutrition shake; 100% Arabica Coffee, Mochaccino; 100& Juice, Cranberry Raspberry and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 75.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 47% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
65.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 4890 of 4955 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 Potassium Citrate
Across the 5,004 products on this site that list Potassium Citrate, 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 20.3x more often with Potassium Citrate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Potassium Citrate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 1,827 | 36.5% | 1.8% |
| Aspartame | 1,159 | 23.2% | 0.9% |
| Sucralose | 1,144 | 22.9% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 797 | 15.9% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 755 | 15.1% | 4.5% |
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
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
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 Citrate
Products Containing Potassium Citrate
16 busy labels from the 5,004 indexed products that list Potassium Citrate:
High-volume peers for Potassium Citrate beside “Sodium Phosphates”
Top-decile company for Potassium Citrate: 5,004 listings averaging 75.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Sodium Phosphates”, “Sorbitol”, “Corn Flour”.
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.
What to do with this Potassium Citrate record
Start from Potassium Citrate's 5,004 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Potassium Citrate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Potassium Citrate with a peer such as “Sodium Phosphates” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Potassium Citrate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Potassium Citrate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
65.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Potassium Citrate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Potassium Citrate 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 Potassium Citrate? ▼
Potassium Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#210 of 247,206), appearing in 5,004 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Potassium Citrate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Potassium Citrate is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, sequestrant 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 (Potassium Citrate). 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.