Grain Vinegar
Grain Vinegar appears in 1,292 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
Grain Vinegar appears in 1,292 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.
- 1,292
- catalogued products
- #566
- usage rank of 247,206
- 192
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
Grain Vinegar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#566 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #566
- 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
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 1,292 parsed labels, slot 21.4 on average. Grain Vinegar tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Grain Vinegar spans 192 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% light whole wheat; 100% whole grain bread; 100% Whole Grain Organic Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
192 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1237 of 1290 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 Grain Vinegar
Across the 1,292 products on this site that list Grain 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 244x more often with Grain Vinegar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Grain Vinegar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 631 | 48.8% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 53 | 4.1% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 26 | 2% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 17 | 1.3% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 13 | 1% | 1.4% |
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 Grain Vinegar
Products Containing Grain Vinegar
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,292 indexed products containing Grain Vinegar:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Calcium Silicate”)
Top-decile company for Grain Vinegar: 1,292 listings averaging 98.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Calcium Silicate · Stevia · Distilled Monoglycerides.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Grain Vinegar record
1,292 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Grain Vinegar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Grain Vinegar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Grain Vinegar next to “Stevia” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Grain Vinegar? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Grain Vinegar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#566 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Grain Vinegar? ▼
Grain Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#566 of 247,206), appearing in 1,292 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Grain Vinegar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Grain Vinegar appears in 1,292 products (#566 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Grain 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.