Flavourings
Flavourings appears in 629 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
Flavourings appears in 629 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.
- 629
- catalogued products
- #893
- usage rank of 247,206
- 219
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
Flavourings sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#893 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #893
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 633 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 633 parsed labels, slot 15.9 on average. Flavourings tends to sit in the lower 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Flavourings spans 219 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 246 BRAMWELLS CHICKEN & VEGETABLE CHUNKY SOUP; 4 Cherry Bakewell Tarts; 6 Chocolate Slices when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
219 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 627 of 627 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 Flavourings
Across the 629 products on this site that list Flavourings, 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. Acesulfame Potassium shows up about 3.8x more often with Flavourings than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Flavourings products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acesulfame Potassium | 43 | 6.8% | 1.8% |
| Sucralose | 41 | 6.5% | 2.7% |
| Aspartame | 31 | 4.9% | 0.9% |
| Carrageenan | 14 | 2.2% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 1.4% | 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 Flavourings
Products Containing Flavourings
High-volume slice (16 of 629) for products naming Flavourings:
Flavourings vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Flavourings: 629 products, mean screening score 96.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Breadcrumbs · Lemongrass · Chipotle Peppers. 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.
Next steps from the Flavourings page
Use the 629-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Flavourings and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Flavourings with a peer such as “Breadcrumbs” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Flavourings
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Flavourings? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Flavourings, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#893 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Flavourings? ▼
Flavourings ranks in the top decile by product count (#893 of 247,206), appearing in 629 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Flavourings so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Flavourings appears in 629 products (#893 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Flavourings). 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.