Vitamin B3
Vitamin B3 appears in 3,187 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 B3 appears in 3,187 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.
- 3,187
- catalogued products
- #293
- usage rank of 247,206
- 550
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1397 of 3187 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1-2-3 gluten free, southern glory, biscuits baking mix; 1.2.3 Gluten Free, Aaron's Favorite Rolls; 1/2 Loaf to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vitamin B3 itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1397 of 3,187 linked records have some flagged component
All 3136 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.
Vitamin B3: top-decile catalog footprint (#293 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #293
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3,187 products listing it (mean slot 14.7). Vitamin B3 usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Vitamin B3
Across the 3,187 products on this site that list Vitamin B3, 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 7.9x more often with Vitamin B3 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin B3 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 683 | 21.4% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 402 | 12.6% | 5.4% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 309 | 9.7% | 1.8% |
| Yellow 5 | 309 | 9.7% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 301 | 9.4% | 5.7% |
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 B3
Products Containing Vitamin B3
16 busy labels from the 3,187 indexed products that list Vitamin B3:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Rosemary Extract”)
Top-decile company for Vitamin B3: 3,187 listings averaging 84.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Rosemary Extract”, “Enriched Bleached Flour”, “Hydrolyzed Soy Protein”.
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 B3 evidence
Start from Vitamin B3's 3,187 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Vitamin B3 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Vitamin B3 — common follow-ups
Does Vitamin B3 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 B3. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamin B3? ▼
Vitamin B3 ranks in the top decile by product count (#293 of 247,206), appearing in 3,187 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vitamin B3 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vitamin B3 appears in 3,187 products (#293 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin B3). 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.