Soy Beans
Soy Beans appears in 223 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 Beans appears in 223 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.
- 223
- catalogued products
- #1,813
- usage rank of 247,206
- 132
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 50 of 223 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 10 Grain Hot Cereal; 8 grain hot cereal; 90 Second Microwavable White Rice Korean BBQ Flavored with Ginger & Garlic to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Soy Beans 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.
50 of 223 linked records have some flagged component
All 217 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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 Beans sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,813 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,813
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 223 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Mean relative depth 37% across 223 parsed labels, slot 9.2 on average. Soy Beans tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Beans
Across the 223 products on this site that list Soy Beans, 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 1.7x more often with Soy Beans than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Soy Beans products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 22 | 9.9% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 11 | 4.9% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 2.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 6 | 2.7% | 3.4% |
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.
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 Beans
Products Containing Soy Beans
High-volume slice (16 of 223) for products naming Soy Beans:
Soy Beans vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Soy Beans: 223 products, mean screening score 96.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cultured Sugar; Isolated Soy Protein Product; L-valine. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Soy Beans record
Use the 223-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Soy Beans before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Soy Beans — common follow-ups
Does Soy Beans 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 Beans. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Soy Beans? ▼
Soy Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,813 of 247,206), appearing in 223 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Soy Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Soy Beans appears in 223 products (#1,813 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Soy Beans). 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.