Natural Flavor
Natural Flavor appears in 61,894 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
Natural Flavor appears in 61,894 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.
- 61,894
- catalogued products
- #5
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7,159
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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: 21380 of 61894 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0% Milkfat Cottage Cheese small curd fat free; 0% Nonfat Greek Yogurt With Fruit; 0875754000640 to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Natural Flavor itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
21380 of 61,894 linked records have some flagged component
All 61860 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.
High-volume listing for Natural Flavor - usage rank #5
- Usage rank
- #5
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Mean relative depth 67% across 62,769 parsed labels, slot 15.8 on average. Natural Flavor tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Natural Flavor
Across the 61,894 products on this site that list Natural Flavor, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Natural Flavor than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7,429 | 12% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 5,194 | 8.4% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 3,530 | 5.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 3,099 | 5% | 4.8% |
| Sucralose | 2,968 | 4.8% | 2.7% |
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 Natural Flavor
Products Containing Natural Flavor
16 busy labels from the 61,894 indexed products that list Natural Flavor:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Folic Acid”)
Natural Flavor sits among other busy catalog rows (61,894 products, mean score 91.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Folic Acid; Riboflavin; Niacin. 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.
What to do with this Natural Flavor record
Use the 61,894-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Natural Flavor and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Natural Flavor
Does Natural Flavor 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 Natural Flavor. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Flavor? ▼
Natural Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#5 of 247,206), appearing in 61,894 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Flavor appears in 61,894 products (#5 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Flavor). 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.