Vanilla
Vanilla appears in 8,993 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
Vanilla appears in 8,993 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.
- 8,993
- catalogued products
- #134
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,105
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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: 2012 of 8993 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0242/0243 Akoma Fair Trade Extra Semisweet Chocolate Chips; 1% low fat milk; 1% low fat milk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vanilla itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2012 of 8,993 linked records have some flagged component
All 8875 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.
Vanilla sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#134 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #134
- 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
- 64%
- Averaged label depth puts Vanilla in the lower half of the list (64% 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 Vanilla
Across the 8,993 products on this site that list Vanilla, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2x more often with Vanilla than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vanilla products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 791 | 8.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 469 | 5.2% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 455 | 5.1% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 418 | 4.6% | 2.1% |
| Blue 1 | 394 | 4.4% | 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 Vanilla
Products Containing Vanilla
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 8,993 indexed products containing Vanilla:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Tomatoes”)
High-volume peers for Vanilla: 8,993 products, mean screening score 93.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Tomatoes · Ferrous Sulfate · Carrots. 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.
Using the Vanilla evidence
Start from Vanilla's 8,993 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vanilla and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Vanilla with a peer such as “Tomatoes” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Vanilla
Does Vanilla 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 Vanilla. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilla? ▼
Vanilla ranks in the top decile by product count (#134 of 247,206), appearing in 8,993 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vanilla so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilla appears in 8,993 products (#134 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilla). 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.