Malt Flavor
Malt Flavor appears in 476 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
Malt Flavor appears in 476 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.
- 476
- catalogued products
- #1,071
- usage rank of 247,206
- 32
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 103 of 476 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12g protein meal bar, double chocolate; A wheat bran cereal; Apple Pie Ultimate Cookie, Apple Pie to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Malt Flavor itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
103 of 476 linked records have some flagged component
All 472 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Malt Flavor: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,071 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,071
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Averaged label depth puts Malt Flavor in the upper half of the list (31% of list length, mean slot 9.7). 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 Malt Flavor
Across the 476 products on this site that list Malt Flavor, 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. Red 40 shows up about 1.9x more often with Malt Flavor than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Malt Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 48 | 10.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 44 | 9.2% | 4.8% |
| BHT | 37 | 7.8% | 1.1% |
| Blue 1 | 36 | 7.6% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 33 | 6.9% | 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 Malt Flavor
Products Containing Malt Flavor
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 476 indexed products containing Malt Flavor:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Date Paste”)
High-volume peers for Malt Flavor: 476 products, mean screening score 89.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Date Paste; Glycerol Ester Of Wood Rosin; Whole Milk Solids. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Using the Malt Flavor evidence
Use the 476-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Malt Flavor before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Malt Flavor with a peer such as “Date Paste” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Malt Flavor carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Malt Flavor. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Malt Flavor? ▼
Malt Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,071 of 247,206), appearing in 476 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 Malt Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Malt Flavor appears in 476 products (#1,071 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Malt Flavor). 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.