Distilled Vinegar

Distilled Vinegar appears in 13,911 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

Distilled Vinegar appears in 13,911 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.

13,911
catalogued products
#77
usage rank of 247,206
2,276
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4149 of 13911 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% All Natural Chicken Breast Mini Nuggets Patty Fritters With Rib Meat, Chicken Breast; 100% Natural Tomato Ketchup; 100% Natural Tomato Ketchup to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Distilled Vinegar itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

4149 of 13,911 linked records have some flagged component

All 13709 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Distilled Vinegar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#77 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#77
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
39%
Mean relative depth 39% across 13,919 parsed labels, slot 11.6 on average. Distilled Vinegar tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 else is usually in the same product as Distilled Vinegar

Across the 13,911 products on this site that list Distilled 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 3.1x more often with Distilled Vinegar than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +11.9ppCaramel Coloring+11.9ppCarrageenan: +0.2ppCarrageenan+0.2ppYellow 5: -1.6ppYellow 5-1.6ppSodium Nitrite: +0.7ppSodium Nitrite+0.7ppPolysorbate 80: +1.7ppPolysorbate 80+1.7pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Distilled Vinegar products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
11.9pp
Carrageenan
0.2pp
Yellow 5
-1.6pp
Sodium Nitrite
0.7pp
Polysorbate 80
1.7pp
Additive Shared products Share of Distilled Vinegar products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 2,444 17.6% 5.7%
Carrageenan 659 4.7% 4.5%
Yellow 5 450 3.2% 4.8%
Sodium Nitrite 429 3.1% 2.4%
Polysorbate 80 423 3% 1.3%

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 Distilled Vinegar

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Distilled Vinegar
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Emulsifier”)

High-volume peers for Distilled Vinegar: 13,911 products, mean screening score 95.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Emulsifier; Cheese Culture; Sodium Phosphate. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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.

Using the Distilled Vinegar evidence

13,911 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Distilled Vinegar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Distilled Vinegar — common follow-ups

Does Distilled Vinegar carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Distilled Vinegar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Distilled Vinegar?

Distilled Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#77 of 247,206), appearing in 13,911 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Distilled Vinegar so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Distilled Vinegar appears in 13,911 products (#77 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Distilled 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.