Artificial Flavoring
Artificial Flavoring appears in 813 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
Artificial Flavoring appears in 813 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.
- 813
- catalogued products
- #754
- usage rank of 247,206
- 245
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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: 312 of 813 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3" lemon drop; A Peanut Butter Graham Cracker Snack Bar; Abango with Propolis to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Artificial Flavoring 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.
312 of 813 linked records have some flagged component
All 812 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.
Artificial Flavoring: top-decile catalog footprint (#754 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #754
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 817 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 817 products listing it (mean slot 13.9). Artificial Flavoring 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.
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 Artificial Flavoring
Across the 813 products on this site that list Artificial Flavoring, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 3.5x more often with Artificial Flavoring than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Artificial Flavoring products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 138 | 17% | 4.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 108 | 13.3% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 6 | 108 | 13.3% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 106 | 13% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 102 | 12.5% | 5.4% |
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 Artificial Flavoring
Products Containing Artificial Flavoring
High-volume slice (16 of 813) for products naming Artificial Flavoring:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Fresh Garlic”)
Artificial Flavoring sits among other busy catalog rows (813 products, mean score 80.6/100). Nearest count peers include “Fresh Garlic”, “Ethyl Alcohol”, “Organic Pasta”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Artificial Flavoring evidence
813 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Artificial Flavoring are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Artificial Flavoring to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Artificial Flavoring with a peer such as “Fresh Garlic” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Artificial Flavoring — common follow-ups
Does Artificial Flavoring 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 Artificial Flavoring. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Flavoring? ▼
Artificial Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#754 of 247,206), appearing in 813 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Artificial Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Flavoring appears in 813 products (#754 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Flavoring). 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.