Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6
Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 appears in 4 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 Color #5 & #6 appears in 4 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.
- 4
- catalogued products
- #28,812
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
100% 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 Color #5 & #6 as the trigger. Open records such as Barista's Choice, Iced Red Velvet Ring Cake; Daisy's, iced red velvet ring cake; Elie's, Red Velvet Whoopie Pie and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 61.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 87% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 4 of 4 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 Color #5 & #6: above-median product count (beats 88.3% of ranked ingredients)
- Usage rank
- #28,812
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6,278 others that also appear in exactly 4 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 87%
- Mean relative depth 87% across 4 parsed labels, slot 31.5 on average. Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 4 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 Color #5 & #6
Products Containing Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6
All 4 indexed products that name Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6:
Nationwide peers near this flagged-ingredient footprint
With 100% co-flag overlap, compare peers on count and mean score separately — Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 spans 4 products at 61.3/100 average screening score.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 page
4 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
100% 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 Color #5 & #6 is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Where does Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 show up across the catalog? ▼
Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 3 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6. Its near the end of the captured list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fd&c Yellow Color #5 & #6). 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.