Or Less Of Natural Flavors

Or Less Of Natural Flavors appears in 281 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

Or Less Of Natural Flavors appears in 281 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.

281
catalogued products
#1,546
usage rank of 247,206
46
named brands represented
51%
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

70.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Or Less Of Natural Flavors as the trigger. Open records such as 100% plant protein burger patties; Almond Based Gelato; BANANA CREAM PIE and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 51% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

70.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 248 of 279 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.

Or Less Of Natural Flavors: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,546 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,546
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 281 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
51%
Averaged label depth puts Or Less Of Natural Flavors in the lower half of the list (51% of list length, mean slot 12.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 Or Less Of Natural Flavors

Across the 281 products on this site that list Or Less Of Natural Flavors, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 12.3x more often with Or Less Of Natural Flavors than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +50.7ppCarrageenan+50.7ppCaramel Coloring: +11.7ppCaramel Coloring+11.7ppPolysorbate 80: +9.7ppPolysorbate 80+9.7ppSodium Nitrite: +7.9ppSodium Nitrite+7.9ppRed 40: +1.4ppRed 40+1.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Or Less Of Natural Flavors products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
50.7pp
Caramel Coloring
11.7pp
Polysorbate 80
9.7pp
Sodium Nitrite
7.9pp
Red 40
1.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Or Less Of Natural Flavors products Share of all products
Carrageenan 155 55.2% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 49 17.4% 5.7%
Polysorbate 80 31 11% 1.3%
Sodium Nitrite 29 10.3% 2.4%
Red 40 19 6.8% 5.4%

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 Or Less Of Natural Flavors

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Or Less Of Natural Flavors
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Or Less Of Natural Flavors vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Or Less Of Natural Flavors: 281 listings averaging 85.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Mangos”, “Yellow #6 Lake”, “Blackcurrant”.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Or Less Of Natural Flavors evidence

Use the 281-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Or Less Of Natural Flavors to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare Or Less Of Natural Flavors with a peer such as “Mangos” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.

Or Less Of Natural Flavors — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Or Less Of Natural Flavors sits in heavily flagged products?

70.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Or Less Of Natural Flavors is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Or Less Of Natural Flavors?

Or Less Of Natural Flavors ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,546 of 247,206), appearing in 281 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Or Less Of Natural Flavors so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Or Less Of Natural Flavors appears in 281 products (#1,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Or Less Of Natural Flavors). 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.