Textured Vegetable Protein
Textured Vegetable Protein appears in 982 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
Textured Vegetable Protein appears in 982 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.
- 982
- catalogued products
- #670
- usage rank of 247,206
- 245
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
87.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Textured Vegetable Protein as the trigger. Open records such as 3 meat sausage pepperoni & ham pizza, 3 meat; 4 Star Beef Taco Filling; 4 Star Premium Beef Chili and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 81.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 44% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
87.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 973 of 981 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Textured Vegetable Protein sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#670 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #670
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Averaged label depth puts Textured Vegetable Protein in the upper half of the list (44% of list length, mean slot 22.5). 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 Textured Vegetable Protein
Across the 982 products on this site that list Textured Vegetable Protein, 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 14.2x more often with Textured Vegetable Protein than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Textured Vegetable Protein products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 794 | 80.9% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 216 | 22% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 205 | 20.9% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 195 | 19.9% | 0.7% |
| TBHQ | 59 | 6% | 0.5% |
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 Textured Vegetable Protein
Products Containing Textured Vegetable Protein
16 busy labels from the 982 indexed products that list Textured Vegetable Protein:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Agave Syrup”)
High-volume peers for Textured Vegetable Protein: 982 products, mean screening score 81.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Agave Syrup · For Freshness · Liquid Sugar. 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.
Next steps from the Textured Vegetable Protein page
Use the 982-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Textured Vegetable Protein and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Textured Vegetable Protein with a peer such as “Agave Syrup” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Textured Vegetable Protein sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
87.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Textured Vegetable Protein is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Textured Vegetable Protein? ▼
Textured Vegetable Protein ranks in the top decile by product count (#670 of 247,206), appearing in 982 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Textured Vegetable Protein so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Textured Vegetable Protein appears in 982 products (#670 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Textured Vegetable Protein). 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.