Yellow 5 And Yellow 6
Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 appears in 140 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 And Yellow 6 appears in 140 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.
- 140
- catalogued products
- #2,468
- usage rank of 247,206
- 69
- named brands represented
- 91%
- 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: 69 of 140 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Banana pudding cups, banana; Battered Broccoli With Cheese 4760; Battered Cauliflower With Cheese 4756 to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Desserts supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
69 of 140 linked records have some flagged component
All 140 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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 5 And Yellow 6 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,468 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,468
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 140 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 91%
- Averaged label depth puts Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 near the end of the captured list (91% of list length, mean slot 17.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Yellow 5 And Yellow 6
Across the 140 products on this site that list Yellow 5 And Yellow 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 4.8x more often with Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 36 | 25.7% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 32 | 22.9% | 4.2% |
| Green 3 | 24 | 17.1% | 0% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 8 | 5.7% | 2.1% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 5.7% | 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 Yellow 5 And Yellow 6
Products Containing Yellow 5 And Yellow 6
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 140 indexed products containing Yellow 5 And Yellow 6:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bleached”)
High-volume peers for Yellow 5 And Yellow 6: 140 products, mean screening score 77.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bleached; Carbonated Filtered Water; Cooked White Rice. 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 And Yellow 6 page
140 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 next to “Carbonated Filtered Water” (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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 — common follow-ups
Does Yellow 5 And 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 5 And 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 5 And Yellow 6? ▼
Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,468 of 247,206), appearing in 140 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow 5 And Yellow 6 appears in 140 products (#2,468 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow 5 And 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.