Vitamin B-3
Vitamin B-3 appears in 106 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
Vitamin B-3 appears in 106 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.
- 106
- catalogued products
- #3,011
- usage rank of 247,206
- 29
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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: 39 of 106 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apple Cinnamon Morning Rounds; Apple Cinnamon, Snacking Round, US; Aspire Healthy Energy Raspberry + Acai to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Vitamin B-3 itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
39 of 106 linked records have some flagged component
All 105 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.
Vitamin B-3 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,011 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,011
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 21 others that also appear in exactly 106 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Mean relative depth 56% across 106 parsed labels, slot 16.7 on average. Vitamin B-3 tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Vitamin B-3
Across the 106 products on this site that list Vitamin B-3, 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. Sucralose shows up about 10.8x more often with Vitamin B-3 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin B-3 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 31 | 29.2% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 16 | 15.1% | 1.8% |
| Blue 1 | 5 | 4.7% | 4.2% |
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 Vitamin B-3
Products Containing Vitamin B-3
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 106 indexed products containing Vitamin B-3:
High-volume peers for Vitamin B-3 beside “Organic Ancho Chili Pepper”
Top-decile company for Vitamin B-3: 106 listings averaging 90.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Ancho Chili Pepper; As Methylcobalamin; Bacon Cured With Water.
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.
Using the Vitamin B-3 evidence
Use the 106-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Vitamin B-3 and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Vitamin B-3 next to “As Methylcobalamin” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Vitamin B-3
Does Vitamin B-3 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 Vitamin B-3. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamin B-3? ▼
Vitamin B-3 ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,011 of 247,206), appearing in 106 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vitamin B-3 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vitamin B-3 appears in 106 products (#3,011 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin B-3). 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.