Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 553 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Certain People Should Avoid.”
Source-backed answer
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein appears in 553 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Certain People Should Avoid.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 553
- catalogued products
- #993
- usage rank of 247,206
- 193
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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.
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein: top-decile catalog footprint (#993 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #993
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 554 products listing it (mean slot 17.5). Hydrolyzed vegetable protein 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
53.3% 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 vegetable protein as the trigger. Open records such as 5-hour ENERGY Extra Strength; A taste of china, sweet and sour rice, sweet and sour, sweet and sour; A taste of china, szechuan noodles and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 93.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 52% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 538 of 549 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 Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
Across the 553 products on this site that list Hydrolyzed vegetable 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 7.2x more often with Hydrolyzed vegetable protein than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Hydrolyzed vegetable protein products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 227 | 41% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 50 | 9% | 4.5% |
| BHA | 30 | 5.4% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 23 | 4.2% | 1.1% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 14 | 2.5% | 2.4% |
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.
Function
Flavoring
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 vegetable protein
Products Containing Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 553 indexed products containing Hydrolyzed vegetable protein:
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein sits among other busy catalog rows (553 products, mean score 93/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Butternut Squash; Cultured Pasteurized Skim Milk; Nutritional Yeast. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Hydrolyzed vegetable protein record
553 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Hydrolyzed vegetable protein are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Hydrolyzed vegetable protein before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Hydrolyzed vegetable protein sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53.3% 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 vegetable protein is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Hydrolyzed vegetable protein scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale and CSPI lists it as "Certain People Should Avoid". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hydrolyzed vegetable protein? ▼
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein ranks in the top decile by product count (#993 of 247,206), appearing in 553 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Hydrolyzed vegetable protein serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein is recorded as a flavoring 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 (Hydrolyzed vegetable 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.