Trisodium Citrate
Trisodium Citrate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 369 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Trisodium Citrate appears in 369 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.
- 369
- catalogued products
- #1,276
- usage rank of 247,206
- 149
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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.
Trisodium Citrate sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,276 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,276
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 369 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Mean relative depth 61% across 369 parsed labels, slot 15.6 on average. Trisodium Citrate tends to sit in the lower half of the 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 157 of 369 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Lberico Lomo De Bellota Dry Cured Loin; 2 Lemon & Sultana Danish Pastries; 4 Cherry Bakewell Tarts to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Trisodium Citrate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
157 of 369 linked records have some flagged component
All 368 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Trisodium Citrate
Across the 369 products on this site that list Trisodium Citrate, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Red 40 shows up about 2.5x more often with Trisodium Citrate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Trisodium Citrate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 50 | 13.6% | 5.4% |
| Sucralose | 49 | 13.3% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 35 | 9.5% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 35 | 9.5% | 4.2% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 28 | 7.6% | 2.1% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
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 Trisodium Citrate
Products Containing Trisodium Citrate
16 busy labels from the 369 indexed products that list Trisodium Citrate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Asparagus”)
Top-decile company for Trisodium Citrate: 369 listings averaging 84.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Asparagus”, “Cooked Beef”, “Pyridoxine Hcl”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Trisodium Citrate page
369 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Trisodium Citrate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Trisodium 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. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Trisodium Citrate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Trisodium Citrate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Trisodium Citrate? ▼
Trisodium Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,276 of 247,206), appearing in 369 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Trisodium Citrate do in food? ▼
Trisodium Citrate is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavoring agent or adjuvant, malting or fermenting aid, nutrient supplement, ph control agent, sequestrant, stabilizer or thickener, surface-active agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Trisodium 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.