Artificial Cherry Flavor

Artificial Cherry Flavor appears in 11 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 Cherry Flavor appears in 11 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.

11
catalogued products
#14,190
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
52%
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

100% 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 Cherry Flavor as the trigger. Open records such as Candy Gummies; Candylicious Bubbles, Bubbles You Can Eat, Cherry; Cheerwine soft drink and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 57.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 52% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 11 of 11 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 Cherry Flavor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#14,190 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#14,190
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
52%
Averaged label depth puts Artificial Cherry Flavor in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 6.0). 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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 11 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 Cherry 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 11 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 020406080100 0123456 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Artificial Cherry Flavor Candy GummiesCandylicious Bubbles, Bubbles You Can Eat, CherryCheerwine soft drinkCheerwine soft drinkSoft drinkAssorted wild fruit hard candyCaffeine free diet soft drinkCheerwine soft drinkGelatin DessertIce popsSoft drink
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

High-volume peers for Artificial Cherry Flavor: 11 products, mean screening score 57.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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 Cherry Flavor evidence

Use the 11-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Artificial Cherry Flavor to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Cherry Flavor

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

100% 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 Cherry 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 Cherry Flavor?

Artificial Cherry Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Artificial Cherry Flavor so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Cherry Flavor appears in 11 products (#14,190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Cherry 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.