Yellow Lake #5
Yellow Lake #5 appears in 89 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 Lake #5 appears in 89 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.
- 89
- catalogued products
- #3,412
- usage rank of 247,206
- 40
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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.
Yellow Lake #5 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,412 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,412
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 89 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Mean relative depth 79% across 89 parsed labels, slot 16.6 on average. Yellow Lake #5 tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Yellow Lake #5 spans 40 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Atlanta Bread, Tea Cake, Lemon; Baking Chips; Barbecue spice seasoning, barbecue spice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
40 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 80 of 88 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Yellow Lake #5
Across the 89 products on this site that list Yellow Lake #5, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 3.2x more often with Yellow Lake #5 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Yellow Lake #5 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 6 | 6.7% | 2.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 5.6% | 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 Lake #5
Products Containing Yellow Lake #5
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 89 indexed products containing Yellow Lake #5:
High-volume peers for Yellow Lake #5 beside “As An Emulsifier”
Top-decile company for Yellow Lake #5: 89 listings averaging 94.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: As An Emulsifier · Balsamic Vinegar Of Modena · Calcium Gluconate.
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.
Using the Yellow Lake #5 evidence
Use the 89-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Yellow Lake #5 and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Yellow Lake #5 with a peer such as “As An Emulsifier” on 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Yellow Lake #5 — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Yellow Lake #5? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Yellow Lake #5, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,412 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow Lake #5? ▼
Yellow Lake #5 ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,412 of 247,206), appearing in 89 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yellow Lake #5 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow Lake #5 appears in 89 products (#3,412 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow Lake #5). 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.