Smoke Flavoring
Smoke Flavoring appears in 1,760 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
Smoke Flavoring appears in 1,760 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.
- 1,760
- catalogued products
- #446
- usage rank of 247,206
- 468
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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
77.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Smoke Flavoring as the trigger. Open records such as 1 lb. Hot dog; 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 2 Quarter Pounder Bee, Bbq, Bacon & Cheese Patties and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 82.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 72% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
77.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1759 of 1760 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 Smoke Flavoring - usage rank #446
- Usage rank
- #446
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,777 products listing it (mean slot 27.9). Smoke Flavoring usually falls in the lower 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Smoke Flavoring
Across the 1,760 products on this site that list Smoke 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 25.5x more often with Smoke Flavoring than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Smoke Flavoring products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 1,078 | 61.3% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 273 | 15.5% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 255 | 14.5% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 250 | 14.2% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 148 | 8.4% | 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.
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 Smoke Flavoring
Products Containing Smoke Flavoring
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,760 indexed products containing Smoke Flavoring:
Smoke Flavoring vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Smoke Flavoring sits among other busy catalog rows (1,760 products, mean score 82.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Natural Butter Flavor”, “Green Onion”, “Stabilizers”. 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.
Using the Smoke Flavoring evidence
Use the 1,760-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Smoke Flavoring and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Smoke Flavoring next to “Green Onion” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Smoke Flavoring sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
77.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Smoke Flavoring is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Smoke Flavoring? ▼
Smoke Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#446 of 247,206), appearing in 1,760 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Smoke Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Smoke Flavoring appears in 1,760 products (#446 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Smoke 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.