Soybean
Soybean appears in 12,231 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
Soybean appears in 12,231 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.
- 12,231
- catalogued products
- #91
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,910
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3934 of 12231 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 donut; 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 100% Pure Kodiak Cakes Power Waffles to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Soybean itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3934 of 12,231 linked records have some flagged component
All 12032 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.
Soybean sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#91 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #91
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Soybean in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 13.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Soybean
Across the 12,231 products on this site that list Soybean, 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 2.1x more often with Soybean than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Soybean products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,433 | 11.7% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,042 | 8.5% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,008 | 8.2% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 949 | 7.8% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 762 | 6.2% | 4.2% |
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 Soybean
Products Containing Soybean
High-volume slice (16 of 12,231) for products naming Soybean:
Soybean vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Soybean: 12,231 products, mean screening score 88.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate”, “Coconut Oil”, “Black Pepper”. 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 Soybean evidence
Use the 12,231-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 Soybean to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Soybean next to “Coconut Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Soybean — common follow-ups
Does Soybean 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 Soybean. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Soybean? ▼
Soybean ranks in the top decile by product count (#91 of 247,206), appearing in 12,231 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Soybean so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Soybean appears in 12,231 products (#91 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Soybean). 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.