Malt Vinegar
Malt Vinegar appears in 157 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
Malt Vinegar appears in 157 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.
- 157
- catalogued products
- #2,289
- usage rank of 247,206
- 74
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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: 54 of 157 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1883 Sauce; 57 Glazed Chicken Sauce; 57 sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Malt 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.
54 of 157 linked records have some flagged component
All 155 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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.
High-volume listing for Malt Vinegar - usage rank #2,289
- Usage rank
- #2,289
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 157 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 157 products listing it (mean slot 10.3). Malt Vinegar usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Malt Vinegar
Across the 157 products on this site that list Malt 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 5.8x more often with Malt Vinegar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Malt Vinegar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 52 | 33.1% | 5.7% |
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 Malt Vinegar
Products Containing Malt Vinegar
High-volume slice (16 of 157) for products naming Malt Vinegar:
High-volume peers for Malt Vinegar beside “Grapefruit Juice”
Top-decile company for Malt Vinegar: 157 listings averaging 97.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Grapefruit Juice”, “Guava Puree”, “Long Grain White Rice”.
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 Malt Vinegar evidence
Use the 157-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Malt Vinegar to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Malt Vinegar
Does Malt 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 Malt Vinegar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Malt Vinegar? ▼
Malt Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,289 of 247,206), appearing in 157 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Malt Vinegar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Malt Vinegar appears in 157 products (#2,289 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Malt 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.