Bacon Flavor
Bacon Flavor appears in 125 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
Bacon Flavor appears in 125 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.
- 125
- catalogued products
- #2,653
- usage rank of 247,206
- 51
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
56.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Bacon Flavor as the trigger. Open records such as 16 Bean Soup Mix; Ahold, bacon & cheddar franks, smoke; Almonds and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.3/100 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.
56.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 125 of 125 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.
Bacon Flavor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,653 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,653
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 127 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 127 parsed labels, slot 22.5 on average. Bacon Flavor 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 Bacon Flavor
Across the 125 products on this site that list Bacon Flavor, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 11.7x more often with Bacon Flavor than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bacon Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 35 | 28% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 23 | 18.4% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 11 | 8.8% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 6.4% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 8 | 6.4% | 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 Bacon Flavor
Products Containing Bacon Flavor
16 busy labels from the 125 indexed products that list Bacon Flavor:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Aluminum Free Baking Powder”)
Top-decile company for Bacon Flavor: 125 listings averaging 87.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Aluminum Free Baking Powder”, “Annatto Extracts”, “Apple Concentrate”.
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 Bacon Flavor page
125 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bacon Flavor are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Bacon Flavor and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Bacon Flavor with a peer such as “Aluminum Free Baking Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Bacon Flavor sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
56.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Bacon Flavor is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bacon Flavor? ▼
Bacon Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,653 of 247,206), appearing in 125 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bacon Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bacon Flavor appears in 125 products (#2,653 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bacon 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.