Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht
Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht appears in 4 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
Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht appears in 4 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.
- 4
- catalogued products
- #28,812
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 4 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Potato Pearls EXCEL Original Butter Mashed Potatoes; Hearty baked mashed potatoes; Mashed potatoes to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1 of 4 linked records have some flagged component
All 4 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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.
Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht: above-median product count (beats 88.3% of ranked ingredients)
- Usage rank
- #28,812
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Averaged label depth puts Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht in the lower half of the list (62% of list length, mean slot 20.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 4 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 Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht
Products Containing Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht
Every indexed product currently listing Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht (4 total):
Count-or-score neighbours for Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht
Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht comparison set — 4 products, mean 85/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht page
Start from Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht's 4 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht 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. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Where does Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht show up across the catalog? ▼
Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 1 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht). 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.