B5
B5 appears in 155 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
B5 appears in 155 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.
- 155
- catalogued products
- #2,309
- usage rank of 247,206
- 52
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 61 of 155 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare acai blueberry pomegranate nutrient enhanced water beverage; All Bran Flakes; Alphonso Mango to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to B5 itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
61 of 155 linked records have some flagged component
All 151 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
B5: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,309 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,309
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 155 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Mean relative depth 60% across 155 parsed labels, slot 16.6 on average. B5 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.
What else is usually in the same product as B5
Across the 155 products on this site that list B5, 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. Sucralose shows up about 13.4x more often with B5 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of B5 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 56 | 36.1% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 18 | 11.6% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 11 | 7.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | 6.5% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 5.2% | 5.7% |
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 B5
Products Containing B5
High-volume slice (16 of 155) for products naming B5:
B5 vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for B5: 155 listings averaging 87.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Bovine · Chipotle · Cocoa Nibs.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the B5 evidence
Use the 155-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for B5 and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare B5 with a peer such as “Bovine” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
B5 — common follow-ups
Does B5 carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to B5. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with B5? ▼
B5 ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,309 of 247,206), appearing in 155 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is B5 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet B5 appears in 155 products (#2,309 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (B5). 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.