Flavouring
Flavouring appears in 569 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
Flavouring appears in 569 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.
- 569
- catalogued products
- #968
- usage rank of 247,206
- 266
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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.
Flavouring sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#968 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #968
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 574 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Mean relative depth 72% across 574 parsed labels, slot 16.7 on average. Flavouring 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Flavouring spans 266 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 2 Toffee Cream Meringues; 3 SALTED CARAMEL ICE CREAM; 4 BLUEBERRY HOT CROSS BUNS WITH A HINT OF VANILLA when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
266 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 567 of 567 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Flavouring
Across the 569 products on this site that list Flavouring, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Flavouring products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 17 | 3% | 2.1% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 2.3% | 4.5% |
| Sucralose | 12 | 2.1% | 2.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 7 | 1.2% | 1.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 5 | 0.9% | 2.4% |
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 Flavouring
Products Containing Flavouring
16 busy labels from the 569 indexed products that list Flavouring:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Mineral Nutrients”)
High-volume peers for Flavouring: 569 products, mean screening score 98.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Mineral Nutrients · Hydrolyzed Corn Gluten · Rice Concentrate. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Flavouring evidence
Start from Flavouring's 569 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Flavouring before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Flavouring next to “Hydrolyzed Corn Gluten” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Flavouring — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Flavouring? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Flavouring, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#968 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flavouring? ▼
Flavouring ranks in the top decile by product count (#968 of 247,206), appearing in 569 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Flavouring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flavouring appears in 569 products (#968 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flavouring). 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.