Vitamin C
Vitamin C appears in 14,492 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 C appears in 14,492 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.
- 14,492
- catalogued products
- #74
- usage rank of 248,027
- 2,025
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4408 of 14492 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 slice hard salami 2 slices mild cheddar cheese; 1% low fat milk; 1% Lowfat Milk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vitamin C 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.
All 13975 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.
Where Vitamin C sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #74
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 14,492 products listing it (mean slot 11.6). Vitamin C 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.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Vitamin C
Across the 14,492 products on this site that list Vitamin C, 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 2.1x more often with Vitamin C than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin C products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 1,676 | 11.6% | 5.4% |
| Sucralose | 1,360 | 9.4% | 2.7% |
| Blue 1 | 1,228 | 8.5% | 4.2% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 882 | 6.1% | 1.8% |
| Yellow 5 | 703 | 4.9% | 4.8% |
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, 2026-08-02.
Products Containing Vitamin C
A sample of 16 of the 14,492 indexed products containing Vitamin C, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Vitamin C safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vitamin C, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Vitamin C? ▼
Vitamin C is found in 14,492 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Vitamin C do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Vitamin C. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
