Yellow No. 5 & 6
Yellow No. 5 & 6 appears in 3 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 No. 5 & 6 appears in 3 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.
- 3
- catalogued products
- #35,091
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Yellow No. 5 & 6 as the trigger. Open records such as The Candy Tree, Gumballs Candy; Celebration cheesecake; Fruit swirl variety cheesecake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 78.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 72% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 3 of 3 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Upper-half catalog placement for Yellow No. 5 & 6 (#35,091)
- Usage rank
- #35,091
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,093 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Mean relative depth 72% across 3 parsed labels, slot 30.7 on average. Yellow No. 5 & 6 tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
Products Containing Yellow No. 5 & 6
All 3 indexed products that name Yellow No. 5 & 6:
Similar catalog profiles where co-flags already cluster
Co-flag rate 100% makes peer triage useful: Yellow No. 5 & 6 covers 3 products (mean 78.3/100).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Yellow No. 5 & 6 page
3 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Yellow No. 5 & 6 are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Yellow No. 5 & 6 and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Yellow No. 5 & 6
How should I read safety signals when Yellow No. 5 & 6 sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Yellow No. 5 & 6 is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Where does Yellow No. 5 & 6 show up across the catalog? ▼
Yellow No. 5 & 6 sits above the median for catalog prevalence (3 products, #35,091 of 247,206) across 1 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Yellow No. 5 & 6 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Yellow No. 5 & 6. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow No. 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.