Spice Extract

Spice Extract appears in 726 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 Extract appears in 726 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.

726
catalogued products
#816
usage rank of 247,206
222
named brands represented
80%
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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 268 of 726 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Vegetable Juice; Aged Balsamic & Olive Oil; Ahold, milk chocolate bar, pumpkin spice crunch to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Spice Extract itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Canned foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

268 of 726 linked records have some flagged component

All 713 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.

High-volume listing for Spice Extract - usage rank #816

Usage rank
#816
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 728 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
80%
Mean relative depth 80% across 728 parsed labels, slot 22.5 on average. Spice Extract tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Spice Extract

Across the 726 products on this site that list Spice Extract, 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 Spice Extract than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +20.1ppCaramel Coloring+20.1ppSodium Nitrite: +1.5ppSodium Nitrite+1.5ppYellow 5: -1.4ppYellow 5-1.4ppYellow 6: -0.5ppYellow 6-0.5ppBHT: +1.5ppBHT+1.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Spice Extract products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
20.1pp
Sodium Nitrite
1.5pp
Yellow 5
-1.4pp
Yellow 6
-0.5pp
BHT
1.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Spice Extract products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 187 25.8% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 28 3.9% 2.4%
Yellow 5 25 3.4% 4.8%
Yellow 6 21 2.9% 3.4%
BHT 19 2.6% 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 Spice Extract

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Spice Extract
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.

Spice Extract vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Spice Extract sits among other busy catalog rows (726 products, mean score 95/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: From Corn · Natural Lemon Flavor · White Grape Juice Concentrate. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Spice Extract evidence

Start from Spice Extract's 726 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Spice Extract before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Spice Extract next to “Natural Lemon Flavor” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Spice Extract 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 Extract. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Spice Extract?

Spice Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#816 of 247,206), appearing in 726 indexed products led by Canned foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Spice Extract so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spice Extract appears in 726 products (#816 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spice Extract). 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.