Balsamic Vinaigrette
Balsamic Vinaigrette appears in 25 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
Balsamic Vinaigrette appears in 25 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.
- 25
- catalogued products
- #8,001
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Balsamic Vinaigrette - usage rank #8,001
- Usage rank
- #8,001
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 24%
- Averaged label depth puts Balsamic Vinaigrette near the top of the captured list (24% of list length, mean slot 11.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Balsamic Vinaigrette spans 7 named brands and is led by the Salted-snacks group. Start with Caprese Pasta; Chicken & Balsamic Crafted Plate, Chicken & Balsamic; Food Evolution, Small Market Salad when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
7 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 25 of 25 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.
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 Balsamic Vinaigrette
Products Containing Balsamic Vinaigrette
High-volume slice (16 of 25) for products naming Balsamic Vinaigrette:
High-volume peers for Balsamic Vinaigrette
Top-decile company for Balsamic Vinaigrette: 25 listings averaging 97.6/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Balsamic Vinaigrette page
Start from Balsamic Vinaigrette's 25 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Balsamic Vinaigrette and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
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- 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.
Balsamic Vinaigrette — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Balsamic Vinaigrette? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Balsamic Vinaigrette, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,001 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Balsamic Vinaigrette? ▼
Balsamic Vinaigrette ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Balsamic Vinaigrette so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Balsamic Vinaigrette appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Balsamic Vinaigrette). 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.