Sulfuric Acid
Sulfuric Acid carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 3 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sulfuric Acid appears in 3 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.
- 3
- catalogued products
- #35,091
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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.
Sulfuric Acid: above-median product count (beats 85.8% of ranked ingredients)
- Usage rank
- #35,091
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,093 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Mean relative depth 75% across 3 parsed labels, slot 9.0 on average. Sulfuric Acid tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sulfuric Acid as the trigger. Open records such as Enfamil Poly-Vi-Sol Multivitamin & Iron Drops; Multivitamin and Iron; Gourmet margarita mix and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 86.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 75% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 3 of 3 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.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
Products Containing Sulfuric Acid
All 3 indexed products that name Sulfuric Acid:
Similar catalog profiles where co-flags already cluster
Co-flag rate 100% makes peer triage useful: Sulfuric Acid covers 3 products (mean 86.7/100).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Sulfuric Acid evidence
Start from Sulfuric Acid's 3 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sulfuric Acid to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Sulfuric Acid — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Sulfuric Acid sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sulfuric Acid is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Sulfuric Acid 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.
Where does Sulfuric Acid show up across the catalog? ▼
Sulfuric Acid sits above the median for catalog prevalence (3 products, #35,091 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
What function does Sulfuric Acid serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Sulfuric Acid is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, ph control agent, processing aid 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 (Sulfuric 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.