Tricalcium Citrate
Tricalcium Citrate appears in 92 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
Tricalcium Citrate appears in 92 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.
- 92
- catalogued products
- #3,310
- usage rank of 247,206
- 37
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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.
Tricalcium Citrate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,310 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,310
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 41 others that also appear in exactly 92 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Averaged label depth puts Tricalcium Citrate in the lower half of the list (53% of list length, mean slot 15.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tricalcium Citrate spans 37 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% premium florida orange juice, no pulp, calcium & vitamin d; 100% premium florida orange juice, some pulp, calcium & vitamin d; 100% Pure Florida Pasteurized Orange Juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
37 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 78 of 90 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 Tricalcium Citrate
Products Containing Tricalcium Citrate
16 busy labels from the 92 indexed products that list Tricalcium Citrate:
Tricalcium Citrate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Tricalcium Citrate: 92 listings averaging 98.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour · Added To Maintain Color · With Alkali.
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 Tricalcium Citrate page
92 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Tricalcium Citrate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Tricalcium Citrate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Tricalcium Citrate next to “Added To Maintain Color” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Tricalcium Citrate
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tricalcium Citrate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tricalcium Citrate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,310 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tricalcium Citrate? ▼
Tricalcium Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,310 of 247,206), appearing in 92 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tricalcium Citrate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tricalcium Citrate appears in 92 products (#3,310 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tricalcium 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.