Rice Vinegar
Rice Vinegar appears in 1,450 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
Rice Vinegar appears in 1,450 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.
- 1,450
- catalogued products
- #521
- usage rank of 247,206
- 427
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
Rice Vinegar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#521 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #521
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,450 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,450 products listing it (mean slot 14.6). Rice 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.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Rice Vinegar spans 427 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 12Pc Shrimp Temp Kabuki Roll, Shrimp Temp Kabuki; 12pc shrimp tempura kabuki roll wr; 4pc spicy shrimp inari when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
427 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1133 of 1396 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 Rice Vinegar
Across the 1,450 products on this site that list Rice 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 2.4x more often with Rice Vinegar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Rice Vinegar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 199 | 13.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 56 | 3.9% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 20 | 1.4% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 18 | 1.2% | 4.2% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 8 | 0.6% | 2.1% |
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 Rice Vinegar
Products Containing Rice Vinegar
High-volume slice (16 of 1,450) for products naming Rice Vinegar:
Rice Vinegar vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Rice Vinegar: 1,450 listings averaging 97.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Sulfites · Bacon · Unsalted Butter.
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 Rice Vinegar record
Start from Rice Vinegar's 1,450 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Rice Vinegar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Rice Vinegar — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Rice Vinegar? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Rice Vinegar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#521 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Rice Vinegar? ▼
Rice Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#521 of 247,206), appearing in 1,450 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Rice Vinegar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Rice Vinegar appears in 1,450 products (#521 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Rice 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.