Artificial Flavors
Artificial Flavors appears in 4,934 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 Flavors appears in 4,934 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.
- 4,934
- catalogued products
- #212
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,165
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
70.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Artificial Flavors as the trigger. Open records such as 1 Wow!, Lollipop Bouquet; 100% Whey Protein Powder; 12 Candy Canes and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 56.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 61% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
70.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 4930 of 4932 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Artificial Flavors sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#212 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #212
- 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
- 61%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4,934 products listing it (mean slot 13.8). Artificial Flavors 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 Flavors
Across the 4,934 products on this site that list Artificial Flavors, 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 7.8x more often with Artificial Flavors than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Artificial Flavors products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 2,085 | 42.3% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 1,947 | 39.5% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,824 | 37% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,435 | 29.1% | 3.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 849 | 17.2% | 2.1% |
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 Flavors
Products Containing Artificial Flavors
High-volume slice (16 of 4,934) for products naming Artificial Flavors:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Corn Flour”)
Artificial Flavors sits among other busy catalog rows (4,934 products, mean score 56.4/100). Nearest count peers include “Corn Flour”, “Potassium Citrate”, “Disodium Inosinate”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Artificial Flavors evidence
4,934 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Artificial Flavors are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Artificial Flavors and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Artificial Flavors next to “Potassium Citrate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Artificial Flavors sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
70.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Artificial Flavors is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Flavors? ▼
Artificial Flavors ranks in the top decile by product count (#212 of 247,206), appearing in 4,934 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Artificial Flavors so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Flavors appears in 4,934 products (#212 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Flavors). 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.