Colored With Yellow 5
Colored With Yellow 5 appears in 9 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
Colored With Yellow 5 appears in 9 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.
- 9
- catalogued products
- #16,390
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 95%
- 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: 4 of 9 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Dulces La Chona, Mangochonadas; Duncan Hines Creamy home-style frosting; Duncan hines, comstock, original pie filling & topping, lemon creme to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Colored With Yellow 5 itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Cooking helpers supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
4 of 9 linked records have some flagged component
All 9 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.
Colored With Yellow 5: top-decile catalog footprint (#16,390 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #16,390
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 95%
- Mean relative depth 95% across 9 parsed labels, slot 26.2 on average. Colored With Yellow 5 tends to sit near the end of the captured 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 9 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 Colored With Yellow 5
Products Containing Colored With Yellow 5
A sample of 9 high-volume listings among the 9 indexed products containing Colored With Yellow 5:
Colored With Yellow 5 vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Colored With Yellow 5: 9 listings averaging 70.6/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Colored With Yellow 5 record
9 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Colored With Yellow 5 are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Colored With Yellow 5 and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Colored With Yellow 5 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 Colored With Yellow 5. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Colored With Yellow 5? ▼
Colored With Yellow 5 ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Cooking helpers. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Colored With Yellow 5 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Colored With Yellow 5 appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Colored With Yellow 5). 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.