Artificial Food Flavor

Artificial Food Flavor appears in 6 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 Food Flavor appears in 6 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.

6
catalogued products
#21,732
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
92%
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.

High-volume listing for Artificial Food Flavor - usage rank #21,732

Usage rank
#21,732
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
92%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 6 products listing it (mean slot 15.0). Artificial Food Flavor 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.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Artificial Food Flavor spans 4 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Biscuits - Sultana; Cream Crackers; Khong guan, butter coconut, biscuits when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

4 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 4 of 6 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.

Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 6 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 Food 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 6 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 708090100110 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Artificial Food Flavor Biscuits - SultanaCream CrackersKhong guan, butter coconut, biscuitsPulau Biryani Spice MixBlueberries and creamLuv yu, thai sweet chili sauce
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 Food Flavor

Top-decile company for Artificial Food Flavor: 6 listings averaging 95.8/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Artificial Food Flavor page

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

  • Check the listed products containing Artificial Food Flavor before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

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

Questions readers ask about Artificial Food Flavor

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Artificial Food Flavor?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Artificial Food Flavor, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#21,732 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

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

Artificial Food Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Artificial Food Flavor so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Food Flavor appears in 6 products (#21,732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Food 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.