Flavor Base
Flavor Base appears in 43 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
Flavor Base appears in 43 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.
- 43
- catalogued products
- #5,507
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
81.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Flavor Base as the trigger. Open records such as Bar; Beef & Ricotta Beef Meat Sauce With Tomatoes, Oregano & Basil, Stacked With Three Layers Of House-Made Pasta, Ricotta, Parmesan & Romano Cheeses Traditional Homestyle Lasagna, Beef & Ricotta; Birthday Cake Ice Cream With Confetti Candy Pieces and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 80.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 41% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
81.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 43 of 43 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.
High-volume listing for Flavor Base - usage rank #5,507
- Usage rank
- #5,507
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Mean relative depth 41% across 43 parsed labels, slot 14.3 on average. Flavor Base tends to sit in the upper half of the 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 Flavor Base
Across the 43 products on this site that list Flavor Base, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 13.4x more often with Flavor Base than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Flavor Base products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 26 | 60.5% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 41.9% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 14% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 6 | 14% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 11.6% | 5.4% |
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 Flavor Base
Products Containing Flavor Base
16 busy labels from the 43 indexed products that list Flavor Base:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Flavor Base sits among other busy catalog rows (43 products, mean score 80.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Flavor Base evidence
Start from Flavor Base's 43 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Flavor Base before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Flavor Base — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Flavor Base sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
81.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Flavor Base is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flavor Base? ▼
Flavor Base ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Flavor Base so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flavor Base appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flavor Base). 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.