Flavoring
Flavoring appears in 9,312 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
Flavoring appears in 9,312 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.
- 9,312
- catalogued products
- #126
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,694
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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: 4602 of 9312 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 10 Slice White Bread; 100 Plus Pro to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Flavoring itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
4602 of 9,312 linked records have some flagged component
All 9307 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.
Flavoring: top-decile catalog footprint (#126 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #126
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 9,522 products listing it (mean slot 19.7). Flavoring usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Flavoring
Across the 9,312 products on this site that list Flavoring, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 9.9x more often with Flavoring than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Flavoring products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 2,211 | 23.7% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 1,417 | 15.2% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 1,021 | 11% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 983 | 10.6% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 826 | 8.9% | 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 Flavoring
Products Containing Flavoring
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 9,312 indexed products containing Flavoring:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Potatoes”)
High-volume peers for Flavoring: 9,312 products, mean screening score 88.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Potatoes”, “Msg”, “Calcium Sulfate”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Flavoring evidence
Start from Flavoring's 9,312 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Flavoring and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Flavoring next to “Msg” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Flavoring — common follow-ups
Does Flavoring 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 Flavoring. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flavoring? ▼
Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#126 of 247,206), appearing in 9,312 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flavoring appears in 9,312 products (#126 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flavoring). 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.