Artificial Flavour

Artificial Flavour appears in 128 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 Flavour appears in 128 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.

128
catalogued products
#2,639
usage rank of 247,206
77
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: 42 of 128 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A couple of squares, gingerbread cookie; A couple of squares, gingerbread cookie; Allison's candy kabob, candies to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Artificial Flavour 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.

42 of 128 linked records have some flagged component

All 128 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.

High-volume listing for Artificial Flavour - usage rank #2,639

Usage rank
#2,639
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 128 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
69%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 128 products listing it (mean slot 14.1). Artificial Flavour 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 Flavour

Across the 128 products on this site that list Artificial Flavour, 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. Blue 1 shows up about 3x more often with Artificial Flavour than in the catalogue at large.

Blue 1: +8.3ppBlue 1+8.3ppYellow 5: +6.1ppYellow 5+6.1ppTitanium Dioxide: +8.1ppTitanium Dioxide+8.1ppRed 40: +4.8ppRed 40+4.8ppYellow 6: +4.4ppYellow 6+4.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Artificial Flavour products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Blue 1
8.3pp
Yellow 5
6.1pp
Titanium Dioxide
8.1pp
Red 40
4.8pp
Yellow 6
4.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Artificial Flavour products Share of all products
Blue 1 16 12.5% 4.2%
Yellow 5 14 10.9% 4.8%
Titanium Dioxide 13 10.2% 2.1%
Red 40 13 10.2% 5.4%
Yellow 6 10 7.8% 3.4%

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 Flavour

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 050100150 02468 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Artificial Flavour
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Natural Whole Grain Rolled Oats”)

Top-decile company for Artificial Flavour: 128 listings averaging 86.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Natural Whole Grain Rolled Oats; Organic Chicken Bone Broth; Fresh Parsley.

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 Flavour evidence

128 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Artificial Flavour are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Artificial Flavour and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Compare Artificial Flavour with a peer such as “100% Natural Whole Grain Rolled Oats” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Artificial Flavour

Does Artificial Flavour 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 Flavour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Flavour?

Artificial Flavour ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,639 of 247,206), appearing in 128 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Artificial Flavour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Flavour appears in 128 products (#2,639 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Flavour). 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.