Natural Spice Flavors
Natural Spice Flavors appears in 90 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 Spice Flavors appears in 90 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.
- 90
- catalogued products
- #3,385
- usage rank of 247,206
- 34
- 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
63.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Natural Spice Flavors as the trigger. Open records such as Acme Smoked Fish Of Florida, Smoked Fish Salad; Babies Kosher Dill; Burger Sauce and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 90.6/100 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.
63.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 87 of 89 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 Natural Spice Flavors - usage rank #3,385
- Usage rank
- #3,385
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 26 others that also appear in exactly 90 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 90 products listing it (mean slot 12.3). Natural Spice Flavors 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.
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 Natural Spice Flavors
Across the 90 products on this site that list Natural Spice Flavors, 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. Polysorbate 80 shows up about 41x more often with Natural Spice Flavors than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Spice Flavors products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 80 | 48 | 53.3% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 14 | 15.6% | 4.8% |
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 14.4% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 5 | 5.6% | 2.7% |
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 Natural Spice Flavors
Products Containing Natural Spice Flavors
High-volume slice (16 of 90) for products naming Natural Spice Flavors:
Natural Spice Flavors vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Natural Spice Flavors: 90 listings averaging 90.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Added For Freshness”, “Organic Agave Fiber”, “B. Bifidum”.
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.
Next steps from the Natural Spice Flavors page
Use the 90-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Natural Spice Flavors and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Natural Spice Flavors with a peer such as “Added For Freshness” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Natural Spice Flavors — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Natural Spice Flavors sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
63.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Natural Spice Flavors is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Spice Flavors? ▼
Natural Spice Flavors ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,385 of 247,206), appearing in 90 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Spice Flavors so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Spice Flavors appears in 90 products (#3,385 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Spice Flavors). 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.