Including Natural Smoke Flavors

Including Natural Smoke Flavors appears in 97 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

Including Natural Smoke Flavors appears in 97 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.

97
catalogued products
#3,198
usage rank of 247,206
46
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 30 of 97 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Applewood bbq sauce, applewood bbq; Applewood Smoked Bacon; Bacon Rub, Bacon Wrapped to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Including Natural Smoke Flavors 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.

30 of 97 linked records have some flagged component

All 97 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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.

Including Natural Smoke Flavors: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,198 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,198
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 97 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
72%
Mean relative depth 72% across 97 parsed labels, slot 18.9 on average. Including Natural Smoke Flavors tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Including Natural Smoke Flavors

Across the 97 products on this site that list Including Natural Smoke Flavors, 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 4.5x more often with Including Natural Smoke Flavors than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Including Natural Smoke Flavors products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 25 25.8% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 5 5.2% 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 Including Natural Smoke Flavors

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Including Natural Smoke Flavors
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Including Natural Smoke Flavors beside “Added As An Emulsifier”

Top-decile company for Including Natural Smoke Flavors: 97 listings averaging 97.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Added As An Emulsifier”, “Natural And Processed With Alkali”, “As Niacinamide”.

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 Including Natural Smoke Flavors evidence

Use the 97-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Including Natural Smoke Flavors before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Including Natural Smoke Flavors 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 Including Natural Smoke Flavors. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Including Natural Smoke Flavors?

Including Natural Smoke Flavors ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,198 of 247,206), appearing in 97 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Including Natural Smoke Flavors so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Including Natural Smoke Flavors appears in 97 products (#3,198 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Including Natural Smoke Flavors). 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.