Riboflavin
Riboflavin carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 58,035 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Riboflavin appears in 58,035 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 58,035
- catalogued products
- #7
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5,582
- named brands represented
- 38%
- 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.
Riboflavin: top-decile catalog footprint (#7 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 58,036 products listing it (mean slot 11.7). Riboflavin 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. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 19781 of 58035 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0016500579793; 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx; 1-2-3 gluten free, southern glory, biscuits baking mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Riboflavin itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
19781 of 58,035 linked records have some flagged component
All 56966 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Riboflavin
Across the 58,035 products on this site that list Riboflavin, 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 2x more often with Riboflavin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Riboflavin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6,570 | 11.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 4,552 | 7.8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 4,279 | 7.4% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 3,795 | 6.5% | 3.4% |
| Carrageenan | 3,761 | 6.5% | 4.5% |
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.
Function
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Riboflavin
Products Containing Riboflavin
High-volume slice (16 of 58,035) for products naming Riboflavin:
High-volume peers for Riboflavin beside “Folic Acid”
Riboflavin sits among other busy catalog rows (58,035 products, mean score 88.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Folic Acid”, “Niacin”, “Natural Flavor”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Riboflavin page
Use the 58,035-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 Riboflavin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Riboflavin with a peer such as “Folic Acid” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Riboflavin carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Riboflavin itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Riboflavin? ▼
Riboflavin ranks in the top decile by product count (#7 of 247,206), appearing in 58,035 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Riboflavin do in food? ▼
Riboflavin is recorded as a color or coloring adjunct, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Riboflavin). 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.