Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake
Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake appears in 153 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
Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake appears in 153 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.
- 153
- catalogued products
- #2,335
- usage rank of 247,206
- 48
- named brands represented
- 76%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
64.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake as the trigger. Open records such as 7-eleven, sugar cookie; Aunt jemima, griddle melts, egg & cheese, egg & cheese; Aunt jemima, griddle melts, sausage, ham & bacon and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 67.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 76% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
64.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 153 of 153 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,335 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,335
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 153 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 76%
- Mean relative depth 76% across 153 parsed labels, slot 23.3 on average. Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake
Across the 153 products on this site that list Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake, 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 60 shows up about 19.6x more often with Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 42 | 27.5% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 41 | 26.8% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 38 | 24.8% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 37 | 24.2% | 5.4% |
| Red 3 | 33 | 21.6% | 1.1% |
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 Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake
Products Containing Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake
High-volume slice (16 of 153) for products naming Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Alpha-tocopherol Acetate”)
Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake sits among other busy catalog rows (153 products, mean score 67.5/100). Nearest count peers include “Alpha-tocopherol Acetate”, “Apple Flavor”, “Broccoli Powder”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake evidence
Use the 153-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake 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
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
64.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake? ▼
Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,335 of 247,206), appearing in 153 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake appears in 153 products (#2,335 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fd&c Yellow #5 Lake). 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.