Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract
Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract appears in 6 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
Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract appears in 6 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.
- 6
- catalogued products
- #21,732
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 66%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract - usage rank #21,732
- Usage rank
- #21,732
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 66%
- Mean relative depth 66% across 6 parsed labels, slot 16.0 on average. Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract spans 4 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with BBQ Joes Chips; Chunky Soup Beef With Country Vegetables; Emerge Plant based chick’n grind when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 6 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 6 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 Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract
Products Containing Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract
High-volume slice (6 of 6) for products naming Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract: 6 listings averaging 99.2/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract evidence
Start from Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract's 6 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- 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.
Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#21,732 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract? ▼
Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract appears in 6 products (#21,732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydrolyzed Yeast Extract). 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.