Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake
Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake 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 No. 6 Aluminum Lake 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
- 2
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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 No. 6 Aluminum Lake as the trigger. Open records such as Mucinex Fast-Max Cold & Flu; Smoothies Assorted Fruit Extra Strength 750; Time Smoothies and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 71.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 57% 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 No. 6 Aluminum Lake ranks above 88.3% of catalogued 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
- 57%
- Mean relative depth 57% across 4 parsed labels, slot 10.5 on average. Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake tends to sit in the lower half of the 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 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 No. 6 Aluminum Lake
Products Containing Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake
Full indexed set for Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake — 4 products:
Similar catalog profiles where co-flags already cluster
Co-flag rate 100% makes peer triage useful: Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake covers 4 products (mean 71.3/100).
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 Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake record
Start from Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake's 4 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake
How should I read safety signals when Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake 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 No. 6 Aluminum Lake is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Where does Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake show up across the catalog? ▼
Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake sits above the median for catalog prevalence (4 products, #28,812 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum Lake. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fd&c Yellow No. 6 Aluminum 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.