Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor
Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor appears in 993 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 Hickory Smoke Flavor appears in 993 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.
- 993
- catalogued products
- #664
- usage rank of 247,206
- 330
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
53.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor as the trigger. Open records such as 100% beef corn dogs; 365 everyday value, barbecue sauce; 365 everyday value, chicken & bbq sauce and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 72% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 912 of 981 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.
Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor: top-decile catalog footprint (#664 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #664
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,000 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,000 products listing it (mean slot 18.4). Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor usually falls in the lower half of the 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. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor
Across the 993 products on this site that list Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 6.7x more often with Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 377 | 38% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 152 | 15.3% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 24 | 2.4% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 20 | 2% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 18 | 1.8% | 4.8% |
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 Hickory Smoke Flavor
Products Containing Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 993 indexed products containing Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Zinc”)
Top-decile company for Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor: 993 listings averaging 92.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Zinc; Enriched Flour Bleached; Trisodium Phosphate.
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.
What to do with this Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor record
Use the 993-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor next to “Enriched Flour Bleached” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor
How should I read safety signals when Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor? ▼
Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#664 of 247,206), appearing in 993 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor appears in 993 products (#664 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor). 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.