Sodium Bicarbonate
Sodium Bicarbonate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 18,008 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Bicarbonate appears in 18,008 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.
- 18,008
- catalogued products
- #53
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,096
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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.
Sodium Bicarbonate: top-decile catalog footprint (#53 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #53
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Mean relative depth 66% across 18,012 parsed labels, slot 20.5 on average. Sodium Bicarbonate tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 6004 of 18008 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0875754000640; 1 donut; 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium 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.
6004 of 18,008 linked records have some flagged component
All 17819 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 Sodium Bicarbonate
Across the 18,008 products on this site that list Sodium 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2x more often with Sodium Bicarbonate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Bicarbonate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 2,029 | 11.3% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 1,336 | 7.4% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,304 | 7.2% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 1,281 | 7.1% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 1,278 | 7.1% | 1.4% |
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, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
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 Sodium Bicarbonate
Products Containing Sodium Bicarbonate
High-volume slice (16 of 18,008) for products naming Sodium Bicarbonate:
Sodium Bicarbonate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Sodium Bicarbonate: 18,008 listings averaging 89.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Yeast Extract · Modified Food Starch · Carrageenan.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Sodium Bicarbonate page
Use the 18,008-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium 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. 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.
Questions readers ask about Sodium Bicarbonate
Does Sodium 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. Sodium 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 Sodium Bicarbonate? ▼
Sodium Bicarbonate ranks in the top decile by product count (#53 of 247,206), appearing in 18,008 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Bicarbonate do in food? ▼
Sodium Bicarbonate is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, leavening agent, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, processing aid, solvent or vehicle in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium 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.