Yellow # 6
Yellow # 6 appears in 30 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
Yellow # 6 appears in 30 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.
- 30
- catalogued products
- #7,050
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 83%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 10 of 30 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Baketree, fruit bites puff pastry, apple; Belgian White Chocolate; Diebergs Markets, Fruit Slices Candy to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Yellow # 6 itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
10 of 30 linked records have some flagged component
All 30 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
Yellow # 6 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#7,050 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,050
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 171 others that also appear in exactly 30 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 83%
- Mean relative depth 83% across 30 parsed labels, slot 20.5 on average. Yellow # 6 tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
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 Yellow # 6
Products Containing Yellow # 6
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 30 indexed products containing Yellow # 6:
Yellow # 6 vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Yellow # 6: 30 products, mean screening score 94.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Yellow # 6 record
Use the 30-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Yellow # 6 and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s 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 Yellow # 6
Does Yellow # 6 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 Yellow # 6. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow # 6? ▼
Yellow # 6 ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,050 of 247,206), appearing in 30 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yellow # 6 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow # 6 appears in 30 products (#7,050 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow # 6). 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.