Natural Citrus Flavor

Natural Citrus Flavor appears in 46 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 Citrus Flavor appears in 46 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.

46
catalogued products
#5,260
usage rank of 247,206
26
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: 14 of 46 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Aloe Mango; Aloe Vera Drink, Blueberry; Aloe Vera Drink, Mango to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Natural Citrus Flavor itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

14 of 46 linked records have some flagged component

All 46 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.

High-volume listing for Natural Citrus Flavor - usage rank #5,260

Usage rank
#5,260
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 46 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
71%
Averaged label depth puts Natural Citrus Flavor in the lower half of the list (71% of list length, mean slot 10.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Natural Citrus Flavor

Across the 46 products on this site that list Natural Citrus 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. Polysorbate 80 shows up about 8.4x more often with Natural Citrus Flavor than in the catalogue at large.

Polysorbate 80: +9.6ppPolysorbate 80+9.6ppYellow 5: +6.1ppYellow 5+6.1ppYellow 6: +7.5ppYellow 6+7.5ppBlue 1: +6.7ppBlue 1+6.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Natural Citrus Flavor products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Polysorbate 80
9.6pp
Yellow 5
6.1pp
Yellow 6
7.5pp
Blue 1
6.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of Natural Citrus Flavor products Share of all products
Polysorbate 80 5 10.9% 1.3%
Yellow 5 5 10.9% 4.8%
Yellow 6 5 10.9% 3.4%
Blue 1 5 10.9% 4.2%

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 Natural Citrus Flavor

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Natural Citrus Flavor
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Natural Citrus Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Natural Citrus Flavor sits among other busy catalog rows (46 products, mean score 89.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Natural Citrus Flavor evidence

46 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Natural Citrus Flavor are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Natural Citrus Flavor to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Natural Citrus Flavor 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 Citrus Flavor. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Citrus Flavor?

Natural Citrus Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,260 of 247,206), appearing in 46 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Natural Citrus Flavor so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Citrus Flavor appears in 46 products (#5,260 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Citrus 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.