Malic Acid Artificial Flavor
Malic Acid Artificial Flavor appears in 2 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
Malic Acid Artificial Flavor appears in 2 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.
- 2
- catalogued products
- #46,249
- usage rank of 248,029
- 1
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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
100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Malic Acid Artificial Flavor as the trigger. Open records such as Gummi Worms; Cherry cotton candy heart pops, cherry cotton candy and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 25.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 50% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 2 of 2 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.
Where Malic Acid Artificial Flavor sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #46,249
- of 248,029 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 25,172 others that also appear in exactly 2 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2 products listing it (mean slot 5.5). Malic Acid Artificial Flavor usually falls in the upper 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. 248,029 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Products Containing Malic Acid Artificial Flavor
A sample of 2 of the 2 indexed products containing Malic Acid Artificial Flavor, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Malic Acid Artificial Flavor safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Malic Acid Artificial Flavor, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Malic Acid Artificial Flavor? ▼
Malic Acid Artificial Flavor is found in 2 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Malic Acid Artificial Flavor do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Malic Acid Artificial Flavor. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
