Tri Sodium Citrate
Tri Sodium Citrate appears in 16 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
Tri Sodium Citrate appears in 16 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.
- 16
- catalogued products
- #10,944
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
68.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Tri Sodium Citrate as the trigger. Open records such as Cola syrup; Diet energy syrup; Diet fountain mist and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 76.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 43% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
68.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 16 of 16 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.
High-volume listing for Tri Sodium Citrate - usage rank #10,944
- Usage rank
- #10,944
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 504 others that also appear in exactly 16 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 16 products listing it (mean slot 6.3). Tri Sodium Citrate usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 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 Tri Sodium Citrate
Products Containing Tri Sodium Citrate
16 busy labels from the 16 indexed products that list Tri Sodium Citrate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Tri Sodium Citrate: 16 listings averaging 76.6/100.
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 Tri Sodium Citrate record
16 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Tri Sodium Citrate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Tri Sodium Citrate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Tri Sodium Citrate
How should I read safety signals when Tri Sodium Citrate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
68.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Tri Sodium Citrate is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tri Sodium Citrate? ▼
Tri Sodium Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,944 of 247,206), appearing in 16 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tri Sodium Citrate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tri Sodium Citrate appears in 16 products (#10,944 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tri Sodium Citrate). 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.