Leavening
Leavening appears in 15,449 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
Leavening appears in 15,449 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.
- 15,449
- catalogued products
- #66
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,858
- named brands represented
- 59%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5754 of 15449 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx; 1/2 Marble Grad Cake With Red Borders; 100% Beef Corn Dogs to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Leavening 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.
5754 of 15,449 linked records have some flagged component
All 15354 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.
Leavening sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#66 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #66
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 59%
- Mean relative depth 59% across 15,451 parsed labels, slot 19.8 on average. Leavening tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 else is usually in the same product as Leavening
Across the 15,449 products on this site that list Leavening, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 10.1x more often with Leavening than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Leavening products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 2,194 | 14.2% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 2,098 | 13.6% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 1,969 | 12.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,892 | 12.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,603 | 10.4% | 3.4% |
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.
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 Leavening
Products Containing Leavening
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 15,449 indexed products containing Leavening:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Paprika”)
Top-decile company for Leavening: 15,449 listings averaging 84.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Paprika · Vitamin A Palmitate · Pasteurized Milk.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
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 Leavening page
15,449 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Leavening are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Leavening before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Leavening next to “Vitamin A Palmitate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Leavening carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Leavening. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Leavening? ▼
Leavening ranks in the top decile by product count (#66 of 247,206), appearing in 15,449 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Leavening so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Leavening appears in 15,449 products (#66 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Leavening). 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.