Ethyl Vanillin
Ethyl Vanillin carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 118 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Ethyl Vanillin appears in 118 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 118
- catalogued products
- #2,800
- usage rank of 247,206
- 46
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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 Ethyl Vanillin - usage rank #2,800
- Usage rank
- #2,800
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 118 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 118 products listing it (mean slot 19.3). Ethyl Vanillin 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 this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
66.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Ethyl Vanillin as the trigger. Open records such as Apple Dip; Authentic Rice Pudding; Brach's, bridge mix, milk & dark chocolate and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 72% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
66.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 117 of 117 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Ethyl Vanillin
Across the 118 products on this site that list Ethyl Vanillin, 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 8.2x more often with Ethyl Vanillin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ethyl Vanillin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 55 | 46.6% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 11% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 13 | 11% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 11 | 9.3% | 3.4% |
| Carrageenan | 10 | 8.5% | 4.5% |
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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT
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 Ethyl Vanillin
Products Containing Ethyl Vanillin
16 busy labels from the 118 indexed products that list Ethyl Vanillin:
Ethyl Vanillin vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Ethyl Vanillin: 118 products, mean screening score 83.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate”, “Chipotle Puree”, “Coffee Powder”. 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.
What to do with this Ethyl Vanillin record
Start from Ethyl Vanillin's 118 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ethyl Vanillin to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Ethyl Vanillin
How should I read safety signals when Ethyl Vanillin sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
66.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Ethyl Vanillin is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Ethyl Vanillin scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ethyl Vanillin? ▼
Ethyl Vanillin ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,800 of 247,206), appearing in 118 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Ethyl Vanillin serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Ethyl Vanillin is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant, ph control agent in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ethyl Vanillin). 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.