Soy
Soy appears in 7,736 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
Soy appears in 7,736 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.
- 7,736
- catalogued products
- #149
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,860
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2533 of 7736 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Angus Beef Cheeseburger; 100% Mass Gainer Vanilla Milkshake; 100% Native Whey Protein Blend to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Soy itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2533 of 7,736 linked records have some flagged component
All 7507 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
Soy: top-decile catalog footprint (#149 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #149
- 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
- 78%
- Averaged label depth puts Soy near the end of the captured list (78% of list length, mean slot 23.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Soy
Across the 7,736 products on this site that list Soy, 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 2.3x more often with Soy than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Soy products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,009 | 13% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 490 | 6.3% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 480 | 6.2% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 418 | 5.4% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 416 | 5.4% | 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 Soy
Products Containing Soy
High-volume slice (16 of 7,736) for products naming Soy:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Gum Arabic”)
High-volume peers for Soy: 7,736 products, mean screening score 90.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Gum Arabic”, “Celery”, “Whey Protein Concentrate”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Using the Soy evidence
7,736 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Soy are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Soy and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Soy with a peer such as “Gum Arabic” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Soy — common follow-ups
Does Soy 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 Soy. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Soy? ▼
Soy ranks in the top decile by product count (#149 of 247,206), appearing in 7,736 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Soy so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Soy appears in 7,736 products (#149 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Soy). 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.