Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6

Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 appears in 8 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 Colors Including Yellow 6 appears in 8 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.

8
catalogued products
#17,814
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
77%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

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 Colors Including Yellow 6 as the trigger. Open records such as Candy Corn; Candy Corn; Candy Corn and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 37.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 77% 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 8 of 8 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 Colors Including Yellow 6 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#17,814 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#17,814
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
77%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 8 products listing it (mean slot 9.9). Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 usually falls near the end of the captured 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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 8 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 Colors Including Yellow 6

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 8 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 0204060 1.522.533.544.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 Candy CornCandy CornCandy CornCandy CornJelly Beans CandyPeach RingsSour Aliens CandyHarvest mix
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.

Products Containing Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6

High-volume slice (8 of 8) for products naming Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6:

Download these 8 product rows (CSV) 8 rows PlainFoodSafe selection: CC BY 4.0. Underlying Open Food Facts data: ODbL 1.0.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 sits among other busy catalog rows (8 products, mean score 37.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

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

Using the Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 evidence

Use the 8-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins

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

Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 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 Colors Including Yellow 6 is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6?

Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6 appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Colors Including Yellow 6). 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.