Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate
Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate appears in 237 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
Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate appears in 237 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.
- 237
- catalogued products
- #1,752
- usage rank of 247,206
- 79
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate - usage rank #1,752
- Usage rank
- #1,752
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 237 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Mean relative depth 67% across 237 parsed labels, slot 16.2 on average. Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate spans 79 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with A Dozen Sweet Bites; Amarettino D'Italia Cookies; Animal shaped biscuits when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
79 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 231 of 235 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Hydrogen Carbonate
Products Containing Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 237 indexed products containing Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters Of Mono And Diglycerides”)
Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate sits among other busy catalog rows (237 products, mean score 98.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters Of Mono And Diglycerides; Great Northern Beans; Jalapeno Puree. 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.
What to do with this Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate record
Use the 237-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate with a peer such as “Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters Of Mono And Diglycerides” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,752 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate? ▼
Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,752 of 247,206), appearing in 237 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate appears in 237 products (#1,752 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate). 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.