Artificial And Natural Flavor

Artificial And Natural Flavor appears in 199 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 And Natural Flavor appears in 199 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.

199
catalogued products
#1,945
usage rank of 247,206
84
named brands represented
68%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

65.8% 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 And Natural Flavor as the trigger. Open records such as 1883 Vanilla Ice Cream; All Chocolate; Apple Cinnamon Pound Cake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 71.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 68% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

65.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 199 of 199 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 And Natural Flavor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,945 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,945
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 199 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
68%
Averaged label depth puts Artificial And Natural Flavor in the lower half of the list (68% of list length, mean slot 18.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Artificial And Natural Flavor

Across the 199 products on this site that list Artificial And Natural Flavor, 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 5.8x more often with Artificial And Natural Flavor than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +25.8ppRed 40+25.8ppBlue 1: +22.9ppBlue 1+22.9ppCaramel Coloring: +11.9ppCaramel Coloring+11.9ppYellow 5: +12.3ppYellow 5+12.3ppYellow 6: +10.7ppYellow 6+10.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Artificial And Natural Flavor products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Red 40
25.8pp
Blue 1
22.9pp
Caramel Coloring
11.9pp
Yellow 5
12.3pp
Yellow 6
10.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of Artificial And Natural Flavor products Share of all products
Red 40 62 31.2% 5.4%
Blue 1 54 27.1% 4.2%
Caramel Coloring 35 17.6% 5.7%
Yellow 5 34 17.1% 4.8%
Yellow 6 28 14.1% 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 And Natural Flavor

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 051015 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Artificial And Natural Flavor
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.

Artificial And Natural Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Artificial And Natural Flavor: 199 products, mean screening score 71.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Beef Gelatin · Cage Free Eggs · Cellulase. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Next steps from the Artificial And Natural Flavor page

Start from Artificial And Natural Flavor's 199 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Artificial And Natural Flavor and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Place Artificial And Natural Flavor next to “Cage Free Eggs” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Artificial And Natural Flavor

How should I read safety signals when Artificial And Natural Flavor sits in heavily flagged products?

65.8% 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 And Natural Flavor is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial And Natural Flavor?

Artificial And Natural Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,945 of 247,206), appearing in 199 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Artificial And Natural Flavor so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial And Natural Flavor appears in 199 products (#1,945 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial And Natural Flavor). 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.