Glycerin Yellow 5
Glycerin Yellow 5 appears in 1 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
Glycerin Yellow 5 appears in 1 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.
- 1
- catalogued products
- #71,422
- usage rank of 248,029
- 1
- named brands represented
- 83%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Glycerin Yellow 5 as the trigger. Open records such as Bubble Gum Eggs and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 50.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 83% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1 of 1 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.
Where Glycerin Yellow 5 sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #71,422
- of 248,029 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 176,607 others that also appear in exactly 1 product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 83%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1 product listing it (mean slot 11.0). Glycerin Yellow 5 usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 248,029 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Products Containing Glycerin Yellow 5
A sample of 1 of the 1 indexed products containing Glycerin Yellow 5, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Glycerin Yellow 5 safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Glycerin Yellow 5, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Glycerin Yellow 5? ▼
Glycerin Yellow 5 is found in 1 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Glycerin Yellow 5 do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Glycerin Yellow 5. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
