Flavour Enhancer
Flavour Enhancer appears in 71 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
Flavour Enhancer appears in 71 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.
- 71
- catalogued products
- #3,937
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Flavour Enhancer - usage rank #3,937
- Usage rank
- #3,937
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 71 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Averaged label depth puts Flavour Enhancer in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 17.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Flavour Enhancer spans 43 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Amoy Superior Light Soy Sauce; Bacalhau a Bras; BBQ Beef Yakisoba when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
43 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 70 of 70 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Flavour Enhancer
Products Containing Flavour Enhancer
16 busy labels from the 71 indexed products that list Flavour Enhancer:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “2% Or Less Of Sugar”)
Flavour Enhancer sits among other busy catalog rows (71 products, mean score 98.5/100). Nearest count peers include “2% Or Less Of Sugar”, “All Purpose Flour”, “Organic Baker's Yeast Extract”. 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 Flavour Enhancer record
Use the 71-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Flavour Enhancer to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Flavour Enhancer with a peer such as “2% Or Less Of Sugar” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Flavour Enhancer
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Flavour Enhancer? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Flavour Enhancer, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,937 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flavour Enhancer? ▼
Flavour Enhancer ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,937 of 247,206), appearing in 71 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Flavour Enhancer so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flavour Enhancer appears in 71 products (#3,937 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flavour Enhancer). 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.