Spice
Spice appears in 15,964 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
Spice appears in 15,964 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.
- 15,964
- catalogued products
- #63
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,458
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5514 of 15964 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx; 1-Step Coleslaw Maker Dressing; 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Spice 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.
5514 of 15,964 linked records have some flagged component
All 15805 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.
Spice: top-decile catalog footprint (#63 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #63
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Averaged label depth puts Spice in the lower half of the list (70% of list length, mean slot 20.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Spice
Across the 15,964 products on this site that list Spice, 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 3x more often with Spice than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Spice products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 2,724 | 17.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 1,245 | 7.8% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 824 | 5.2% | 4.5% |
| BHT | 650 | 4.1% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 608 | 3.8% | 0.7% |
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 Spice
Products Containing Spice
High-volume slice (16 of 15,964) for products naming Spice:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural And Artificial Flavors”)
Top-decile company for Spice: 15,964 listings averaging 92.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural And Artificial Flavors · Yellow 6 · Iron.
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.
Using the Spice evidence
Start from Spice's 15,964 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Spice and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Spice next to “Yellow 6” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Spice
Does Spice 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 Spice. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spice? ▼
Spice ranks in the top decile by product count (#63 of 247,206), appearing in 15,964 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Spice so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spice appears in 15,964 products (#63 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spice). 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.