Natural Smoke Flavor
Natural Smoke Flavor appears in 4,709 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 Smoke Flavor appears in 4,709 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.
- 4,709
- catalogued products
- #216
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,153
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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: 2339 of 4709 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 slice hard salami 2 slices mild cheddar cheese; 16 Bean Soup; 16 Bean Soup Mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Natural Smoke Flavor itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2339 of 4,709 linked records have some flagged component
All 4706 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.
Natural Smoke Flavor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#216 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #216
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 4,813 parsed labels, slot 20.9 on average. Natural Smoke Flavor tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Natural Smoke Flavor
Across the 4,709 products on this site that list Natural Smoke 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 4.7x more often with Natural Smoke Flavor than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Smoke Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,259 | 26.7% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 965 | 20.5% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 228 | 4.8% | 0.7% |
| Carrageenan | 214 | 4.5% | 4.5% |
| BHT | 210 | 4.5% | 1.1% |
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 Smoke Flavor
Products Containing Natural Smoke Flavor
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 4,709 indexed products containing Natural Smoke Flavor:
Natural Smoke Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Natural Smoke Flavor sits among other busy catalog rows (4,709 products, mean score 91.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Apple Juice Concentrate · Cilantro · Cultures. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Natural Smoke Flavor record
Use the 4,709-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Natural Smoke Flavor before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Natural Smoke Flavor with a peer such as “Apple Juice Concentrate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Natural Smoke Flavor — common follow-ups
Does Natural Smoke 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 Natural Smoke Flavor. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Smoke Flavor? ▼
Natural Smoke Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#216 of 247,206), appearing in 4,709 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Smoke Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Smoke Flavor appears in 4,709 products (#216 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Smoke 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.