Lake
Lake appears in 40 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
Lake appears in 40 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.
- 40
- catalogued products
- #5,797
- usage rank of 247,206
- 25
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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
95% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Lake as the trigger. Open records such as Birthday cake bar; Blueberry mini crullers, blueberry; Candy Pieces and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 31.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 69% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
95% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 40 of 40 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.
Lake sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,797 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,797
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 40 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Averaged label depth puts Lake in the lower half of the list (69% of list length, mean slot 21.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Lake
Across the 40 products on this site that list Lake, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 14.1x more often with Lake than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lake products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 27 | 67.5% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 25 | 62.5% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 17 | 42.5% | 4.2% |
| Blue 2 | 16 | 40% | 0.9% |
| Yellow 6 | 15 | 37.5% | 3.4% |
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 Lake
Products Containing Lake
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 40 indexed products containing Lake:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Lake: 40 products, mean screening score 31.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Lake record
Start from Lake's 40 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lake to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Lake
How should I read safety signals when Lake sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
95% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Lake is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lake? ▼
Lake ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 40 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lake appears in 40 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lake). 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.