Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring
Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring appears in 75 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 Flavoring appears in 75 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.
- 75
- catalogued products
- #3,802
- usage rank of 247,206
- 34
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
72% 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 Flavoring as the trigger. Open records such as 100% Beef Corn Dogs; Amish Beef Sticks Honey Bbq; Amish Style Baked Beans and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 75% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
72% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 72 of 75 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 Flavoring sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,802 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,802
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 37 others that also appear in exactly 75 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Mean relative depth 75% across 75 parsed labels, slot 20.3 on average. Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring
Across the 75 products on this site that list Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring, 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 20x more often with Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 36 | 48% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 24% | 5.7% |
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 Flavoring
Products Containing Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 75 indexed products containing Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Alfredo Sauce”)
Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring sits among other busy catalog rows (75 products, mean score 89.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Alfredo Sauce”, “Amaranth Seeds”, “Ascorbic Acid Added As Dough Conditioner”. 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
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 Flavoring record
Start from Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring's 75 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Hickory Smoke Flavoring
How should I read safety signals when Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
72% 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 Flavoring 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 Flavoring? ▼
Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,802 of 247,206), appearing in 75 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring appears in 75 products (#3,802 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Hickory Smoke Flavoring). 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.