And Yellow No. 5 Food Color
And Yellow No. 5 Food Color 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
And Yellow No. 5 Food Color 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
- #35,140
- usage rank of 248,027
- 1
- named brands represented
- 100%
- 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.
Where And Yellow No. 5 Food Color sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #35,140
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,108 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 100%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3 products listing it (mean slot 10.0). And Yellow No. 5 Food Color usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance
No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: And Yellow No. 5 Food Color reaches 1 named brands, most often appears under Salted-snacks, and typically sits near the end of the captured list. Product examples include Mild Pickled Okra; Hot Pickled Okra; Louisiana spicy green beans. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.
Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 3 (2 of 2), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.
Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.
Products Containing And Yellow No. 5 Food Color
A sample of 3 of the 3 indexed products containing And Yellow No. 5 Food Color, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is And Yellow No. 5 Food Color safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to And Yellow No. 5 Food Color, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain And Yellow No. 5 Food Color? ▼
And Yellow No. 5 Food Color is found in 3 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does And Yellow No. 5 Food Color do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for And Yellow No. 5 Food Color. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
