Spices Natural Flavors

Spices Natural Flavors appears in 11 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

Spices Natural Flavors appears in 11 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.

11
catalogued products
#14,190
usage rank of 247,206
8
named brands represented
67%
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.

High-volume listing for Spices Natural Flavors - usage rank #14,190

Usage rank
#14,190
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
67%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 11 products listing it (mean slot 10.8). Spices Natural 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 9.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Spices Natural Flavors spans 8 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Buffalo style ranch popcorn, buffalo style ranch; Organic Pickles; Pizza Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

8 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10 of 10 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.

Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 11 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 Spices Natural Flavors

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 11 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 708090100110 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Spices Natural Flavors Buffalo style ranch popcorn, buffalo style ranchOrganic PicklesPizza SaucePorcini mushrooms with vialone nano riceRisotto alla milanese with saffronRisotto alle verdure miste, mixed vegetablesSandwich SpreadSPICY QUESO FLAVOUREDSweet Italian Ground SausageUnreal Chicken SaladDining shrimp fried rice
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.

High-volume peers for Spices Natural Flavors

Spices Natural Flavors sits among other busy catalog rows (11 products, mean score 97.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

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 Spices Natural Flavors page

11 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Spices Natural Flavors are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Spices Natural Flavors before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Spices Natural Flavors?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Spices Natural Flavors, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#14,190 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Spices Natural Flavors?

Spices Natural Flavors ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Spices Natural Flavors so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Spices Natural Flavors appears in 11 products (#14,190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Spices Natural 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.