Spices Citric Acid
Spices Citric Acid appears in 8 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
Spices Citric Acid appears in 8 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.
- 8
- catalogued products
- #17,814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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 Spices Citric Acid - usage rank #17,814
- Usage rank
- #17,814
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Spices Citric Acid in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 24.0). 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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Spices Citric Acid spans 4 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Chili's, cheesy chicken pasta florentine, grilled white chicken & pasta with black beans and corn in a jalapeno spinach sauce; Original Marinade; Potato Chips when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 90.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 7 of 8 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 8 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 Spices Citric Acid
Products Containing Spices Citric Acid
High-volume slice (8 of 8) for products naming Spices Citric Acid:
Spices Citric Acid vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Spices Citric Acid: 8 products, mean screening score 90.6/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Spices Citric Acid page
Start from Spices Citric Acid's 8 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Spices Citric Acid and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Spices Citric Acid — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Spices Citric Acid? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Spices Citric Acid, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#17,814 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spices Citric Acid? ▼
Spices Citric Acid ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Spices Citric Acid so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spices Citric Acid appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spices Citric Acid). 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.