Vitamin B2

Vitamin B2 appears in 11,513 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

Vitamin B2 appears in 11,513 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.

11,513
catalogued products
#98
usage rank of 247,206
1,203
named brands represented
49%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3682 of 11513 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1-2-3 gluten free, southern glory, biscuits baking mix; 1.2.3 Gluten Free, Aaron's Favorite Rolls; 1/2 Loaf to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vitamin B2 itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

3682 of 11,513 linked records have some flagged component

All 11353 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.

High-volume listing for Vitamin B2 - usage rank #98

Usage rank
#98
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Mean relative depth 49% across 11,513 parsed labels, slot 15.1 on average. Vitamin B2 tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Vitamin B2

Across the 11,513 products on this site that list Vitamin B2, 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 2.1x more often with Vitamin B2 than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +6ppCaramel Coloring+6ppRed 40: +4.6ppRed 40+4.6ppBlue 1: +4ppBlue 1+4ppYellow 6: +3.8ppYellow 6+3.8ppYellow 5: +2ppYellow 5+2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Vitamin B2 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
6pp
Red 40
4.6pp
Blue 1
4pp
Yellow 6
3.8pp
Yellow 5
2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Vitamin B2 products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 1,351 11.7% 5.7%
Red 40 1,146 10% 5.4%
Blue 1 946 8.2% 4.2%
Yellow 6 826 7.2% 3.4%
Yellow 5 785 6.8% 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 Vitamin B2

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 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Vitamin B2
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.

Vitamin B2 vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Vitamin B2 sits among other busy catalog rows (11,513 products, mean score 88.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Cellulose Gum · Canola · Turmeric. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Vitamin B2 record

Start from Vitamin B2's 11,513 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

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

Vitamin B2 — common follow-ups

Does Vitamin B2 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 Vitamin B2. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamin B2?

Vitamin B2 ranks in the top decile by product count (#98 of 247,206), appearing in 11,513 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Vitamin B2 so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vitamin B2 appears in 11,513 products (#98 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin B2). 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.