Yeast Extracts
Yeast Extracts appears in 80 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
Yeast Extracts appears in 80 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.
- 80
- catalogued products
- #3,657
- usage rank of 247,206
- 35
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
Yeast Extracts sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,657 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,657
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 80 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Averaged label depth puts Yeast Extracts in the lower half of the list (50% of list length, mean slot 13.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Yeast Extracts spans 35 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Adobo Chicken Grain Bowl; Andy's Favorite Wieners, Baby Wieners; Beef Ramen Soup when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
35 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 73 of 79 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 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 Yeast Extracts
Products Containing Yeast Extracts
High-volume slice (16 of 80) for products naming Yeast Extracts:
Yeast Extracts vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Yeast Extracts: 80 listings averaging 96.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice · Annatto Extract And Turmeric · Organic Blue Agave Nectar.
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 Yeast Extracts record
80 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Yeast Extracts are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Yeast Extracts before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Yeast Extracts next to “Annatto Extract And Turmeric” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Yeast Extracts
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Yeast Extracts? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Yeast Extracts, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,657 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yeast Extracts? ▼
Yeast Extracts ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,657 of 247,206), appearing in 80 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yeast Extracts so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yeast Extracts appears in 80 products (#3,657 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yeast Extracts). 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.