Textured Vegetable Protein Product
Textured Vegetable Protein Product appears in 70 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 Product appears in 70 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.
- 70
- catalogued products
- #3,970
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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
77.1% 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 Product as the trigger. Open records such as 6 backyard bbq boneless patties; 6.25 Oz pizza meal; Backyard bbq meal and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 41% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
77.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 70 of 70 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 Product sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,970 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,970
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 40 others that also appear in exactly 70 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Mean relative depth 41% across 70 parsed labels, slot 25.2 on average. Textured Vegetable Protein Product tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Textured Vegetable Protein Product
Across the 70 products on this site that list Textured Vegetable Protein Product, 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 9.5x more often with Textured Vegetable Protein Product than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Textured Vegetable Protein Product products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 38 | 54.3% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 19 | 27.1% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 17 | 24.3% | 1.1% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 15 | 21.4% | 2.4% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 6 | 8.6% | 0.2% |
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 Textured Vegetable Protein Product
Products Containing Textured Vegetable Protein Product
16 busy labels from the 70 indexed products that list Textured Vegetable Protein Product:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural And Artificial Flavour”)
Textured Vegetable Protein Product sits among other busy catalog rows (70 products, mean score 83.3/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural And Artificial Flavour · Bakers Yeast · Base. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
What to do with this Textured Vegetable Protein Product record
Use the 70-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 Textured Vegetable Protein Product to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Textured Vegetable Protein Product next to “Bakers Yeast” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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 Product sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
77.1% 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 Product 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 Product? ▼
Textured Vegetable Protein Product ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,970 of 247,206), appearing in 70 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Textured Vegetable Protein Product so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Textured Vegetable Protein Product appears in 70 products (#3,970 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Textured Vegetable Protein Product). 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.