Yellow No. 6 Lake
Yellow No. 6 Lake appears in 32 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. 6 Lake appears in 32 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.
- 32
- catalogued products
- #6,747
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
75% 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. 6 Lake as the trigger. Open records such as Breakfast On The Go! Nut & Granola Mix; Choco N Nuts Mix; Chocolate & Nut Trail Mix and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 71.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 60% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
75% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 32 of 32 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.
Yellow No. 6 Lake sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,747 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,747
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 148 others that also appear in exactly 32 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 32 products listing it (mean slot 19.2). Yellow No. 6 Lake usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Yellow No. 6 Lake
Across the 32 products on this site that list Yellow No. 6 Lake, 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 31.2x more often with Yellow No. 6 Lake than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Yellow No. 6 Lake products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 21 | 65.6% | 2.1% |
| Blue 1 | 16 | 50% | 4.2% |
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 No. 6 Lake
Products Containing Yellow No. 6 Lake
16 busy labels from the 32 indexed products that list Yellow No. 6 Lake:
Yellow No. 6 Lake vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Yellow No. 6 Lake: 32 listings averaging 71.7/100.
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 No. 6 Lake evidence
32 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Yellow No. 6 Lake are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Yellow No. 6 Lake to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Yellow No. 6 Lake — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Yellow No. 6 Lake sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
75% 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. 6 Lake is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow No. 6 Lake? ▼
Yellow No. 6 Lake ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,747 of 247,206), appearing in 32 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yellow No. 6 Lake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow No. 6 Lake appears in 32 products (#6,747 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow No. 6 Lake). 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.