Artificial Flavor And Color
Artificial Flavor And Color appears in 34 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 Flavor And Color appears in 34 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.
- 34
- catalogued products
- #6,452
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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
73.5% 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 Flavor And Color as the trigger. Open records such as Beverages, Root Beer, Diet Soda; Black bear beverages, black cherry; Black bear beverages, diet soda, blue raspberry and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 78.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 65% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
73.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 34 of 34 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.
High-volume listing for Artificial Flavor And Color - usage rank #6,452
- Usage rank
- #6,452
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 125 others that also appear in exactly 34 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 34 parsed labels, slot 16.7 on average. Artificial Flavor And Color tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Flavor And Color
Across the 34 products on this site that list Artificial Flavor And Color, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 7.2x more often with Artificial Flavor And Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Artificial Flavor And Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 11 | 32.4% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 7 | 20.6% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 20.6% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 5 | 14.7% | 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 Flavor And Color
Products Containing Artificial Flavor And Color
High-volume slice (16 of 34) for products naming Artificial Flavor And Color:
Artificial Flavor And Color vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Artificial Flavor And Color sits among other busy catalog rows (34 products, mean score 78.7/100). 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.
Next steps from the Artificial Flavor And Color page
Use the 34-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 Flavor And Color to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Artificial Flavor And Color — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Artificial Flavor And Color sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
73.5% 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 Flavor And Color is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Flavor And Color? ▼
Artificial Flavor And Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Artificial Flavor And Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Flavor And Color appears in 34 products (#6,452 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Flavor And Color). 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.