As Flavor Enhancer
As Flavor Enhancer appears in 24 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
As Flavor Enhancer appears in 24 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.
- 24
- catalogued products
- #8,251
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- 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.
As Flavor Enhancer sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#8,251 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,251
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 260 others that also appear in exactly 24 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 24 parsed labels, slot 9.6 on average. As Flavor Enhancer tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 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: As Flavor Enhancer spans 11 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Adobo savory sauce mix; Barbecue marinade; CALDERETA SPICY SAUCE MIX when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
11 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 24 of 24 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 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 As Flavor Enhancer
Products Containing As Flavor Enhancer
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 24 indexed products containing As Flavor Enhancer:
As Flavor Enhancer vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for As Flavor Enhancer: 24 products, mean screening score 96.9/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this As Flavor Enhancer record
Start from As Flavor Enhancer's 24 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about As Flavor Enhancer
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on As Flavor Enhancer? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to As Flavor Enhancer, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,251 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with As Flavor Enhancer? ▼
As Flavor Enhancer ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,251 of 247,206), appearing in 24 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is As Flavor Enhancer so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet As Flavor Enhancer appears in 24 products (#8,251 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (As Flavor Enhancer). 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.