Spice Extractives
Spice Extractives appears in 2,085 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 Extractives appears in 2,085 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.
- 2,085
- catalogued products
- #395
- usage rank of 247,206
- 607
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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
50.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Spice Extractives as the trigger. Open records such as 3 meat sausage pepperoni & ham pizza, 3 meat; 365 everyday value, baked naan chips, green chili chutney; 365 everyday value, mini corn dogs and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 75% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1941 of 2072 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 Spice Extractives - usage rank #395
- Usage rank
- #395
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 2,090 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Averaged label depth puts Spice Extractives in the lower half of the list (75% of list length, mean slot 23.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Spice Extractives
Across the 2,085 products on this site that list Spice Extractives, 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 8.8x more often with Spice Extractives than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Spice Extractives products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 442 | 21.2% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 427 | 20.5% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 301 | 14.4% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 291 | 14% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 102 | 4.9% | 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 Spice Extractives
Products Containing Spice Extractives
High-volume slice (16 of 2,085) for products naming Spice Extractives:
Spice Extractives vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Spice Extractives: 2,085 listings averaging 87.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: White Pepper · Vegetable Color · Glycerine.
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.
What to do with this Spice Extractives record
Start from Spice Extractives's 2,085 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Spice Extractives before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Spice Extractives next to “Vegetable Color” (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. 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 Spice Extractives
How should I read safety signals when Spice Extractives sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Spice Extractives is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Spice Extractives? ▼
Spice Extractives ranks in the top decile by product count (#395 of 247,206), appearing in 2,085 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Spice Extractives so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spice Extractives appears in 2,085 products (#395 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spice Extractives). 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.