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Citric Acid is the organic acid that conforms to the formula:

CITRIC ACID is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Buffering, Chelating, Fragrance, with CAS number 77-92-9 / 5949-29-1 and EC number 201-069-1. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 85 product labels, reaching position 3 on Aloe dermo gel.

Sample products containing CITRIC ACID

Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.

Query CITRIC ACID in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "CITRIC ACID"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])

The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.