Natural Hardwood Smoke
Natural Hardwood Smoke appears in 130 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
Natural Hardwood Smoke appears in 130 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.
- 130
- catalogued products
- #2,609
- usage rank of 247,206
- 42
- named brands represented
- 86%
- 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: 28 of 130 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Acme Smoked Fish Of Florida, Fresh Smoked Whitefish Salad; Acme Smoked Fish Of Florida, Smoked Fish Salad; Alaska Sockeye Smoked Salmon to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 10–100 score range to Natural Hardwood Smoke itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
28 of 130 linked records have some flagged component
All 116 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 10–100 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.
Natural Hardwood Smoke sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,609 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,609
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 130 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 86%
- Averaged label depth puts Natural Hardwood Smoke near the end of the captured list (86% of list length, mean slot 6.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Natural Hardwood Smoke
Across the 130 products on this site that list Natural Hardwood Smoke, 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 7x more often with Natural Hardwood Smoke than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Hardwood Smoke products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 22 | 16.9% | 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 Natural Hardwood Smoke
Products Containing Natural Hardwood Smoke
16 busy labels from the 130 indexed products that list Natural Hardwood Smoke:
Natural Hardwood Smoke vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Natural Hardwood Smoke sits among other busy catalog rows (130 products, mean score 96/100). Nearest count peers include “Calcium Sulphate”, “Organic Date”, “Organic Extract Of Rosemary”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Natural Hardwood Smoke record
Start from Natural Hardwood Smoke's 130 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Natural Hardwood Smoke to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Natural Hardwood Smoke
Does Natural Hardwood Smoke 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 Natural Hardwood Smoke. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Hardwood Smoke? ▼
Natural Hardwood Smoke ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,609 of 247,206), appearing in 130 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Hardwood Smoke so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Hardwood Smoke appears in 130 products (#2,609 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Hardwood Smoke). 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.