Natural Caramel Flavoring
Natural Caramel Flavoring appears in 11 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
Natural Caramel Flavoring appears in 11 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.
- 11
- catalogued products
- #12,640
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4 of 11 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Belgian milk chocolate with toffee; Caramel & sea salt 31% cocoa belgian milk chocolate; Dulce De Leche Caramel Flavored Ice Cream With Salty Caramel Swirl, Dulce De Leche, Caramel to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 90–100 score range to Natural Caramel Flavoring itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Desserts supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
4 of 11 linked records have some flagged component
All 11 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 90–100 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.
High-volume listing for Natural Caramel Flavoring - usage rank #12,640
- Usage rank
- #12,640
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 716 others that also appear in exactly 13 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Mean relative depth 71% across 13 parsed labels, slot 16.4 on average. Natural Caramel Flavoring 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 do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 11 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 Natural Caramel Flavoring
Products Containing Natural Caramel Flavoring
A sample of 11 high-volume listings among the 11 indexed products containing Natural Caramel Flavoring:
High-volume peers for Natural Caramel Flavoring
High-volume peers for Natural Caramel Flavoring: 11 products, mean screening score 98.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Natural Caramel Flavoring evidence
Use the 11-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Natural Caramel Flavoring and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Natural Caramel Flavoring
Does Natural Caramel Flavoring 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 Natural Caramel Flavoring. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Caramel Flavoring? ▼
Natural Caramel Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#12,640 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Caramel Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Caramel Flavoring appears in 11 products (#12,640 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Caramel Flavoring). 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.