Spice Extracts

Spice Extracts appears in 388 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 Extracts appears in 388 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.

388
catalogued products
#1,225
usage rank of 247,206
160
named brands represented
78%
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: 143 of 388 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 LA Brea Three Cheese Loaf; Any’tizers popcorn chicken; Applewood Smoked Beef Jerky to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Spice Extracts itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Meats and their products supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

143 of 388 linked records have some flagged component

All 384 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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 Extracts - usage rank #1,225

Usage rank
#1,225
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
78%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 390 products listing it (mean slot 21.5). Spice Extracts usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 Extracts

Across the 388 products on this site that list Spice Extracts, 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 3.2x more often with Spice Extracts than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +12.3ppCaramel Coloring+12.3ppSodium Nitrite: +8.7ppSodium Nitrite+8.7ppCarrageenan: +0.9ppCarrageenan+0.9ppYellow 6: -0.6ppYellow 6-0.6ppYellow 5: -2.2ppYellow 5-2.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Spice Extracts 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
12.3pp
Sodium Nitrite
8.7pp
Carrageenan
0.9pp
Yellow 6
-0.6pp
Yellow 5
-2.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Spice Extracts products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 70 18% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 43 11.1% 2.4%
Carrageenan 21 5.4% 4.5%
Yellow 6 11 2.8% 3.4%
Yellow 5 10 2.6% 4.8%

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 Extracts

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Spice Extracts
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 Extracts vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Spice Extracts sits among other busy catalog rows (388 products, mean score 94.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cheddar Cheese Powder; Source Of Zinc; Sweetcream Buttermilk. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Next steps from the Spice Extracts page

Start from Spice Extracts's 388 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Spice Extracts before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Place Spice Extracts next to “Source Of Zinc” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

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

Spice Extracts — common follow-ups

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Spice Extracts?

Spice Extracts ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,225 of 247,206), appearing in 388 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 Extracts so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spice Extracts appears in 388 products (#1,225 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spice Extracts). 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.