Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors

Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors appears in 139 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 Flavors And Artificial Colors appears in 139 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.

139
catalogued products
#2,484
usage rank of 247,206
26
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

97.8% 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 Flavors And Artificial Colors as the trigger. Open records such as 4 In 1 Candy Bag Mini Poster Stickers; Airbrushed Lollipop; Barnyard, Candy + Dispenser and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 40.3/100 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.

97.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 139 of 139 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 Flavors And Artificial Colors: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,484 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,484
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 139 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
65%
Averaged label depth puts Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors in the lower half of the list (65% of list length, mean slot 9.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors

Across the 139 products on this site that list Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 16.8x more often with Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors than in the catalogue at large.

Yellow 5: +75.8ppYellow 5+75.8ppTitanium Dioxide: +71.3ppTitanium Dioxide+71.3ppRed 40: +42.1ppRed 40+42.1ppBlue 1: +33.9ppBlue 1+33.9ppRed 3: +27.7ppRed 3+27.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Yellow 5
75.8pp
Titanium Dioxide
71.3pp
Red 40
42.1pp
Blue 1
33.9pp
Red 3
27.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors products Share of all products
Yellow 5 112 80.6% 4.8%
Titanium Dioxide 102 73.4% 2.1%
Red 40 66 47.5% 5.4%
Blue 1 53 38.1% 4.2%
Red 3 40 28.8% 1.1%

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 Flavors And Artificial Colors

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 020406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors
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.

High-volume peers for Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors beside “Bacterial Cultures”

Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors sits among other busy catalog rows (139 products, mean score 40.3/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Bacterial Cultures · Carob Powder · Distilled Water. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar product count

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

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Next steps from the Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors page

Start from Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors's 139 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors 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. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Flavors And Artificial Colors

How should I read safety signals when Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors sits in heavily flagged products?

97.8% 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 Flavors And Artificial Colors is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors?

Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,484 of 247,206), appearing in 139 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors appears in 139 products (#2,484 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Flavors And Artificial Colors). 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.