Balsamic Vinegar
Balsamic Vinegar appears in 1,130 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 Vinegar appears in 1,130 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.
- 1,130
- catalogued products
- #611
- usage rank of 247,206
- 435
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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.
Balsamic Vinegar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#611 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #611
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Mean relative depth 39% across 1,131 parsed labels, slot 11.0 on average. Balsamic Vinegar tends to sit in the upper 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Balsamic Vinegar spans 435 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 2 Goat's Cheese & Caramelised Onion Tarts; 2 olive roasted garlic salsa; 365 everyday value, balsamic vinaigrette when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
435 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 838 of 1092 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 Balsamic Vinegar
Across the 1,130 products on this site that list Balsamic Vinegar, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.3x more often with Balsamic Vinegar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Balsamic Vinegar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 150 | 13.3% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 33 | 2.9% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 21 | 1.9% | 2.4% |
| Sucralose | 6 | 0.5% | 2.7% |
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 Balsamic Vinegar
Products Containing Balsamic Vinegar
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,130 indexed products containing Balsamic Vinegar:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Crust”)
Top-decile company for Balsamic Vinegar: 1,130 listings averaging 98.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Crust; Pgpr; Rapeseed.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Balsamic Vinegar record
Start from Balsamic Vinegar's 1,130 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Balsamic Vinegar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Balsamic Vinegar
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Balsamic Vinegar? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Balsamic Vinegar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#611 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Balsamic Vinegar? ▼
Balsamic Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#611 of 247,206), appearing in 1,130 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Balsamic Vinegar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Balsamic Vinegar appears in 1,130 products (#611 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Balsamic Vinegar). 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.