Natural Wood Smoke
Natural Wood Smoke appears in 92 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 Wood Smoke appears in 92 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.
- 92
- catalogued products
- #3,310
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 87%
- 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.
Natural Wood Smoke: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,310 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,310
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 41 others that also appear in exactly 92 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 87%
- Mean relative depth 87% across 92 parsed labels, slot 8.6 on average. Natural Wood Smoke tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Natural Wood Smoke spans 36 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with Archer farms, dip, smoked salmon; Atlantic Salmon Nova Lox; Bento express, red dragon roll when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
36 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 53 of 85 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Natural Wood Smoke
Across the 92 products on this site that list Natural Wood Smoke, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 4.5x more often with Natural Wood Smoke than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Wood Smoke products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 10 | 10.9% | 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.
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 Wood Smoke
Products Containing Natural Wood Smoke
16 busy labels from the 92 indexed products that list Natural Wood Smoke:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour”)
Top-decile company for Natural Wood Smoke: 92 listings averaging 97.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour; Added To Maintain Color; With Alkali.
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 Wood Smoke page
Start from Natural Wood Smoke's 92 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Natural Wood Smoke to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Natural Wood Smoke with a peer such as “100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Natural Wood Smoke — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Natural Wood Smoke? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Natural Wood Smoke, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,310 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Wood Smoke? ▼
Natural Wood Smoke ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,310 of 247,206), appearing in 92 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Wood Smoke so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Wood Smoke appears in 92 products (#3,310 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Wood Smoke). 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.