Vanilla Bean
Vanilla Bean appears in 404 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 Bean appears in 404 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.
- 404
- catalogued products
- #1,186
- usage rank of 247,206
- 194
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Vanilla Bean - usage rank #1,186
- Usage rank
- #1,186
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 404 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 404 products listing it (mean slot 12.2). Vanilla Bean usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vanilla Bean spans 194 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 3 ultra premium home made ice cream bars; 82% Dark Chocolate Flats; A rich cocoa, chocolate chip & marshmallow cookie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
194 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 242 of 377 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Vanilla Bean
Across the 404 products on this site that list Vanilla Bean, 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 2.9x more often with Vanilla Bean than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vanilla Bean products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 53 | 13.1% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | 4.2% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 14 | 3.5% | 1.3% |
| Monk fruit extract | 7 | 1.7% | 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 Vanilla Bean
Products Containing Vanilla Bean
High-volume slice (16 of 404) for products naming Vanilla Bean:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Organic Arugula”)
Top-decile company for Vanilla Bean: 404 listings averaging 98.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Arugula; Organic Tofu; Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides.
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 Vanilla Bean page
Use the 404-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Vanilla Bean before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Vanilla Bean with a peer such as “Organic Arugula” 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vanilla Bean? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vanilla Bean, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,186 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilla Bean? ▼
Vanilla Bean ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,186 of 247,206), appearing in 404 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vanilla Bean so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilla Bean appears in 404 products (#1,186 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilla Bean). 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.