C Yellow #6
C Yellow #6 appears in 45 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
C Yellow #6 appears in 45 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.
- 45
- catalogued products
- #5,333
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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: 17 of 45 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12 Flavor Gummi Bears; Assorted swirled ice squeeze-up tubes frozen dessert, cotton candy, orange dream, cherry melon; Beefhide 9" Retriever Rolls Variety Pack to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to C Yellow #6 itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
17 of 45 linked records have some flagged component
All 45 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.
C Yellow #6 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,333 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,333
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 45 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 45 products listing it (mean slot 20.4). C Yellow #6 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.
What else is usually in the same product as C Yellow #6
Across the 45 products on this site that list C Yellow #6, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.7x more often with C Yellow #6 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of C Yellow #6 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 15.6% | 5.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 6 | 13.3% | 2.1% |
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 C Yellow #6
Products Containing C Yellow #6
High-volume slice (16 of 45) for products naming C Yellow #6:
High-volume peers for C Yellow #6
C Yellow #6 sits among other busy catalog rows (45 products, mean score 93/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this C Yellow #6 record
Start from C Yellow #6's 45 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing C Yellow #6 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does C Yellow #6 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 C Yellow #6. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with C Yellow #6? ▼
C Yellow #6 ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,333 of 247,206), appearing in 45 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is C Yellow #6 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet C Yellow #6 appears in 45 products (#5,333 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (C Yellow #6). 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.