Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40
Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 appears in 3 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 And Red 40 appears in 3 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.
- 3
- catalogued products
- #35,091
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2
- named brands represented
- 87%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 3 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Funfetti Buttermilk Pancake Mix With Candy Bits; Premium Cake Mix, Golden Butter; Muffin mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 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.
1 of 3 linked records have some flagged component
All 3 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 And Red 40 ranks above 85.8% of catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #35,091
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,093 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 87%
- Mean relative depth 87% across 3 parsed labels, slot 28.7 on average. Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 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.
Products Containing Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40
Full indexed set for Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 — 3 products:
Parallel catalog profiles to Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40
Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 comparison set — 3 products, mean 66.7/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 record
3 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40
Does Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 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 And Red 40. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Where does Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 show up across the catalog? ▼
Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 sits above the median for catalog prevalence (3 products, #35,091 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40. Its near the end of the captured list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Colored With Yellow 5 And Red 40). 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.