Natural Maple Flavoring
Natural Maple Flavoring appears in 39 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
Natural Maple Flavoring appears in 39 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.
- 39
- catalogued products
- #5,797
- usage rank of 247,206
- 23
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
56.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Natural Maple Flavoring as the trigger. Open records such as Braunschweiger, Smoke; Fischer & Wiser, Handcrafted One Jar At A Time, Mustard Sauce, Sweet, Sour & Smoky; Gourmet Ice Cream, Maple Nut and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 90.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 58% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
56.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 38 of 38 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.
High-volume listing for Natural Maple Flavoring - usage rank #5,797
- 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
- 58%
- Averaged label depth puts Natural Maple Flavoring in the lower half of the list (58% of list length, mean slot 11.6). 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 Natural Maple Flavoring
Across the 39 products on this site that list Natural Maple Flavoring, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 5.8x more often with Natural Maple Flavoring than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Maple Flavoring products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 33.3% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 23.1% | 2.4% |
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 Natural Maple Flavoring
Products Containing Natural Maple Flavoring
16 busy labels from the 39 indexed products that list Natural Maple Flavoring:
High-volume peers for Natural Maple Flavoring
High-volume peers for Natural Maple Flavoring: 39 products, mean screening score 90.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Natural Maple Flavoring record
39 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Natural Maple Flavoring are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Natural Maple Flavoring and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Natural Maple Flavoring — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Natural Maple Flavoring sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
56.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Natural Maple Flavoring is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Maple Flavoring? ▼
Natural Maple Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,797 of 247,206), appearing in 39 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Maple Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Maple Flavoring appears in 39 products (#5,797 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Maple Flavoring). 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.