Yellow #5 & #6
Yellow #5 & #6 appears in 167 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 #5 & #6 appears in 167 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.
- 167
- catalogued products
- #2,187
- usage rank of 247,206
- 28
- named brands represented
- 88%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 56 of 167 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare All dark fine chocolates, all dark; All milk fine chocolates, all milk; All milk, fine chocolates to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Yellow #5 & #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.
56 of 167 linked records have some flagged component
All 167 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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 Yellow #5 & #6 - usage rank #2,187
- Usage rank
- #2,187
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 167 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 88%
- Mean relative depth 88% across 167 parsed labels, slot 38.4 on average. Yellow #5 & #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.
What else is usually in the same product as Yellow #5 & #6
Across the 167 products on this site that list Yellow #5 & #6, 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. Red 40 shows up about 3x more often with Yellow #5 & #6 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Yellow #5 & #6 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 27 | 16.2% | 5.4% |
| Sucralose | 9 | 5.4% | 2.7% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 9 | 5.4% | 2.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 4.8% | 5.7% |
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 Yellow #5 & #6
Products Containing Yellow #5 & #6
16 busy labels from the 167 indexed products that list Yellow #5 & #6:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Coconuts”)
High-volume peers for Yellow #5 & #6: 167 products, mean screening score 92.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Coconuts; Cracker Meal; Disodium Pyrophosphate. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Yellow #5 & #6 page
Use the 167-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Yellow #5 & #6 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Yellow #5 & #6 — common follow-ups
Does Yellow #5 & #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 #5 & #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 #5 & #6? ▼
Yellow #5 & #6 ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,187 of 247,206), appearing in 167 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yellow #5 & #6 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow #5 & #6 appears in 167 products (#2,187 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow #5 & #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.