Flavored Oil

Flavored Oil appears in 30 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

Flavored Oil appears in 30 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.

30
catalogued products
#7,050
usage rank of 247,206
6
named brands represented
46%
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

63.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Flavored Oil as the trigger. Open records such as Chicken, Bacon And Ranch Sauce White Meat Chicken, Bacon Crumbles And Ranch Sauce On A Rising Crust Pizza, Chicken, Bacon And Ranch Sauce; PEPPERONI PIZZA; Rising crust five cheese pizza and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 79.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 46% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

63.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 27 of 30 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 Flavored Oil - usage rank #7,050

Usage rank
#7,050
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 171 others that also appear in exactly 30 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
46%
Mean relative depth 46% across 30 parsed labels, slot 28.7 on average. Flavored Oil 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 Flavored Oil

Across the 30 products on this site that list Flavored Oil, 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. BHT shows up about 39.4x more often with Flavored Oil than in the catalogue at large.

BHT: +42.2ppBHT+42.2ppSodium Nitrite: +37.6ppSodium Nitrite+37.6ppBHA: +39.3ppBHA+39.3ppCarrageenan: +15.5ppCarrageenan+15.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Flavored Oil products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

BHT
42.2pp
Sodium Nitrite
37.6pp
BHA
39.3pp
Carrageenan
15.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Flavored Oil products Share of all products
BHT 13 43.3% 1.1%
Sodium Nitrite 12 40% 2.4%
BHA 12 40% 0.7%
Carrageenan 6 20% 4.5%

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 Flavored Oil

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Flavored Oil
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Flavored Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (30 products, mean score 79.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Flavored Oil page

Start from Flavored Oil's 30 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Flavored Oil to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Flavored Oil — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Flavored Oil sits in heavily flagged products?

63.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Flavored Oil is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Flavored Oil?

Flavored Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,050 of 247,206), appearing in 30 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Flavored Oil so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flavored Oil appears in 30 products (#7,050 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flavored Oil). 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.