Yeast Nutrients

Yeast Nutrients appears in 726 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 Nutrients appears in 726 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.

726
catalogued products
#819
usage rank of 247,206
148
named brands represented
75%
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: 163 of 726 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 Loaf; 100% Stone Ground Wheat Bread; 100% Wheat Bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Yeast Nutrients itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

163 of 726 linked records have some flagged component

All 726 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 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.

Yeast Nutrients: top-decile catalog footprint (#819 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#819
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 726 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
75%
Averaged label depth puts Yeast Nutrients in the lower half of the list (75% of list length, mean slot 28.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

What else is usually in the same product as Yeast Nutrients

Across the 726 products on this site that list Yeast Nutrients, 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. Azodicarbonamide shows up about 66x more often with Yeast Nutrients than in the catalogue at large.

Azodicarbonamide: +13ppAzodicarbonamide+13ppCaramel Coloring: -1.7ppCaramel Coloring-1.7ppPolysorbate 60: +1.1ppPolysorbate 60+1.1ppSodium Nitrite: -0.1ppSodium Nitrite-0.1ppCarrageenan: -2.6ppCarrageenan-2.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Yeast Nutrients products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Azodicarbonamide
13pp
Caramel Coloring
-1.7pp
Polysorbate 60
1.1pp
Sodium Nitrite
-0.1pp
Carrageenan
-2.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Yeast Nutrients products Share of all products
Azodicarbonamide 96 13.2% 0.2%
Caramel Coloring 29 4% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 18 2.5% 1.4%
Sodium Nitrite 17 2.3% 2.4%
Carrageenan 14 1.9% 4.5%

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 Yeast Nutrients

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Yeast Nutrients
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 Yeast Nutrients beside “From Corn”

Yeast Nutrients sits among other busy catalog rows (726 products, mean score 96.2/100). Nearest count peers include “From Corn”, “Natural Lemon Flavor”, “White Grape Juice Concentrate”. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Yeast Nutrients evidence

726 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Yeast Nutrients are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Yeast Nutrients and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Compare Yeast Nutrients with a peer such as “From Corn” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Yeast Nutrients?

Yeast Nutrients ranks in the top decile by product count (#819 of 247,206), appearing in 726 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 Yeast Nutrients so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yeast Nutrients appears in 726 products (#819 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yeast Nutrients). 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.