Torula yeast
Torula yeast carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 2,563 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Torula yeast appears in 2,563 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 2,563
- catalogued products
- #339
- usage rank of 247,206
- 601
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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 Torula yeast - usage rank #339
- Usage rank
- #339
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Averaged label depth puts Torula yeast in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 17.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 775 of 2563 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Durum Wheat Semolina Pasta; 365 everyday value, kettle cooked potato chips; 4 minuti pasta arrabbiata to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Torula yeast itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
775 of 2,563 linked records have some flagged component
All 2554 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Torula yeast
Across the 2,563 products on this site that list Torula yeast, 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 3.4x more often with Torula yeast than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Torula yeast products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 502 | 19.6% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 127 | 5% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 107 | 4.2% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 97 | 3.8% | 5.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 73 | 2.8% | 2.4% |
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.
Function
Flavoring
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 Torula yeast
Products Containing Torula yeast
16 busy labels from the 2,563 indexed products that list Torula yeast:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Ferric Orthophosphate”)
Top-decile company for Torula yeast: 2,563 listings averaging 93.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Ferric Orthophosphate”, “Calcium Pantothenate”, “Annatto Color”.
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.
What to do with this Torula yeast record
Start from Torula yeast's 2,563 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Torula yeast before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Torula yeast with a peer such as “Ferric Orthophosphate” 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Torula yeast
Does Torula yeast carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Torula yeast itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Torula yeast? ▼
Torula yeast ranks in the top decile by product count (#339 of 247,206), appearing in 2,563 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Torula yeast do in food? ▼
Torula yeast is recorded as a flavoring in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Torula yeast). 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.