Brewer's Yeast
Brewer's Yeast appears in 127 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
Brewer's Yeast appears in 127 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.
- 127
- catalogued products
- #2,653
- usage rank of 247,206
- 45
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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.
Brewer's Yeast: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,653 of 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
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 127 parsed labels, slot 10.8 on average. Brewer's Yeast tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Brewer's Yeast spans 45 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with All Natural Artisan Baked Bruchetta; All Natural Crostini Italian Cheese; Artisan Baked Crouton Sticks when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
45 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 57 of 114 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Brewer's Yeast
Across the 127 products on this site that list Brewer's Yeast, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Brewer's Yeast products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 6.3% | 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 Brewer's Yeast
Products Containing Brewer's Yeast
High-volume slice (16 of 127) for products naming Brewer's Yeast:
Brewer's Yeast vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Brewer's Yeast: 127 listings averaging 98.3/100. Nearest count peers include “As Ascorbic Acid”, “Bacon Flavor”, “Beet Sugar”.
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 Brewer's Yeast page
Start from Brewer's Yeast's 127 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Brewer's Yeast before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Brewer's Yeast with a peer such as “As Ascorbic Acid” 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. 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 Brewer's Yeast
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Brewer's Yeast? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Brewer's Yeast, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,653 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Brewer's Yeast? ▼
Brewer's Yeast ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,653 of 247,206), appearing in 127 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Brewer's Yeast so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Brewer's Yeast appears in 127 products (#2,653 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Brewer's Yeast). 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.