Natural Spearmint Flavor

Natural Spearmint Flavor appears in 21 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 Spearmint Flavor appears in 21 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.

21
catalogued products
#9,037
usage rank of 247,206
13
named brands represented
64%
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.

High-volume listing for Natural Spearmint Flavor - usage rank #9,037

Usage rank
#9,037
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 333 others that also appear in exactly 21 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
64%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 21 products listing it (mean slot 8.4). Natural Spearmint Flavor 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.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Natural Spearmint Flavor spans 13 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Chocolate Powder Drink Mix; Fresh & easy, just squeezed lemonade drink, cucumber & mint; Fresh & easy, squeezed lemonade, cucumber & mint when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 92.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

13 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 19 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.

Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.

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 Spearmint Flavor

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 406080100120 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Natural Spearmint Flavor
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.

Natural Spearmint Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Natural Spearmint Flavor: 21 products, mean screening score 92.9/100. 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.

Next steps from the Natural Spearmint Flavor page

21 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Natural Spearmint Flavor are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Natural Spearmint Flavor to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Natural Spearmint Flavor

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Natural Spearmint Flavor?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Natural Spearmint Flavor, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,037 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Spearmint Flavor?

Natural Spearmint Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,037 of 247,206), appearing in 21 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Natural Spearmint Flavor so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Spearmint Flavor appears in 21 products (#9,037 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Spearmint 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.