Artificial Butter Flavor

Artificial Butter Flavor appears in 361 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 Butter Flavor appears in 361 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.

361
catalogued products
#1,300
usage rank of 247,206
130
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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 175 of 361 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 7" carrot cake; 869 PRETZEL 885. Butter Twink ARTIFICIALLY FLAVCRED,; Arnie's, michigan cherry danish coffeecake to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Artificial Butter Flavor 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.

175 of 361 linked records have some flagged component

All 353 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 Butter Flavor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,300 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,300
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 361 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
61%
Averaged label depth puts Artificial Butter Flavor in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 22.5). 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 Butter Flavor

Across the 361 products on this site that list Artificial Butter 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3x more often with Artificial Butter Flavor than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +11.2ppCaramel Coloring+11.2ppCarrageenan: +5.2ppCarrageenan+5.2ppSodium Nitrite: +6.7ppSodium Nitrite+6.7ppYellow 6: +3.8ppYellow 6+3.8ppYellow 5: +2.1ppYellow 5+2.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Artificial Butter 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.

Caramel Coloring
11.2pp
Carrageenan
5.2pp
Sodium Nitrite
6.7pp
Yellow 6
3.8pp
Yellow 5
2.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Artificial Butter Flavor products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 61 16.9% 5.7%
Carrageenan 35 9.7% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 33 9.1% 2.4%
Yellow 6 26 7.2% 3.4%
Yellow 5 25 6.9% 4.8%

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 Butter 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 20406080100120 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Artificial Butter 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 Butter Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Artificial Butter Flavor: 361 listings averaging 87.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Vegetable Juice Concentrate”, “Controls Acidity”, “Creamer”.

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 Butter Flavor evidence

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

  • Review the sampled product records that list Artificial Butter Flavor to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare Artificial Butter Flavor with a peer such as “Vegetable Juice Concentrate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Artificial Butter Flavor — common follow-ups

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Butter Flavor?

Artificial Butter Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,300 of 247,206), appearing in 361 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Artificial Butter Flavor so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Butter Flavor appears in 361 products (#1,300 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Butter 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.