Hydrolyzed Soy Protein

Hydrolyzed Soy Protein appears in 3,160 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

Hydrolyzed Soy Protein appears in 3,160 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.

3,160
catalogued products
#295
usage rank of 247,206
807
named brands represented
55%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

64.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Hydrolyzed Soy Protein as the trigger. Open records such as 16 Bean Soup; 1939 Local Bbq Sauce; 6 Breaded Chicken Parmagliana Patties with Tomato Sauce and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 55% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

64.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 3121 of 3156 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.

Hydrolyzed Soy Protein: top-decile catalog footprint (#295 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#295
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
55%
Mean relative depth 55% across 3,160 parsed labels, slot 18.2 on average. Hydrolyzed Soy Protein tends to sit in the lower 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Hydrolyzed Soy Protein

Across the 3,160 products on this site that list Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, 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 7.7x more often with Hydrolyzed Soy Protein than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +38.4ppCaramel Coloring+38.4ppSodium Nitrite: +10.6ppSodium Nitrite+10.6ppCarrageenan: +0.1ppCarrageenan+0.1ppYellow 6: +0.7ppYellow 6+0.7ppYellow 5: -1.2ppYellow 5-1.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein 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
38.4pp
Sodium Nitrite
10.6pp
Carrageenan
0.1pp
Yellow 6
0.7pp
Yellow 5
-1.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Hydrolyzed Soy Protein products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 1,394 44.1% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 412 13% 2.4%
Carrageenan 145 4.6% 4.5%
Yellow 6 131 4.1% 3.4%
Yellow 5 114 3.6% 4.8%

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 Hydrolyzed Soy Protein

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
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.

High-volume peers for Hydrolyzed Soy Protein beside “Enriched Bleached Flour”

Top-decile company for Hydrolyzed Soy Protein: 3,160 listings averaging 89.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Enriched Bleached Flour · Vitamin B3 · Rosemary Extract.

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.

Next steps from the Hydrolyzed Soy Protein page

Use the 3,160-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Hydrolyzed Soy Protein and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Hydrolyzed Soy Protein

How should I read safety signals when Hydrolyzed Soy Protein sits in heavily flagged products?

64.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Hydrolyzed Soy Protein is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Hydrolyzed Soy Protein?

Hydrolyzed Soy Protein ranks in the top decile by product count (#295 of 247,206), appearing in 3,160 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Hydrolyzed Soy Protein so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Hydrolyzed Soy Protein appears in 3,160 products (#295 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hydrolyzed Soy Protein). 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.