Zinc Citrate
Zinc Citrate appears in 164 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
Zinc Citrate appears in 164 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.
- 164
- catalogued products
- #2,219
- usage rank of 247,206
- 50
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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: 43 of 164 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 6 Essential Electrolytes Daily Electrolyte Drink Mix; 6 Essential Electrolytes Daily Electrolyte Drink Mix Summer Splash Variety Pack; 6 Essential Electrolytes Fruitastic Variety Pack Daily Electrolyte Drink Mix Non-gmo to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Zinc 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.
43 of 164 linked records have some flagged component
All 161 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.
Zinc Citrate: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,219 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,219
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 164 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Averaged label depth puts Zinc Citrate in the lower half of the list (72% of list length, mean slot 23.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Zinc Citrate
Across the 164 products on this site that list Zinc 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. Sucralose shows up about 4.7x more often with Zinc Citrate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Zinc Citrate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 21 | 12.8% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 13 | 7.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 11 | 6.7% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 9 | 5.5% | 4.5% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 6 | 3.7% | 1.8% |
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, 2026-09-01.
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 Zinc Citrate
Products Containing Zinc Citrate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 164 indexed products containing Zinc Citrate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bees Wax”)
Top-decile company for Zinc Citrate: 164 listings averaging 91.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Bees Wax · Blue #2 Lake · Organic Blueberry Powder.
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 Zinc Citrate evidence
164 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Zinc Citrate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Zinc Citrate and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Zinc Citrate with a peer such as “Bees Wax” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Zinc Citrate
Does Zinc 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. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Zinc Citrate. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Zinc Citrate? ▼
Zinc Citrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,219 of 247,206), appearing in 164 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Zinc Citrate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Zinc Citrate appears in 164 products (#2,219 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zinc 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.