Vanilla Bean Extract
Vanilla Bean Extract appears in 83 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 Extract appears in 83 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.
- 83
- catalogued products
- #3,577
- usage rank of 247,206
- 30
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
Vanilla Bean Extract sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,577 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,577
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 83 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Averaged label depth puts Vanilla Bean Extract in the lower half of the list (74% of list length, mean slot 16.7). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vanilla Bean Extract spans 30 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Almetta, Almond Milk Mousse, French Vanilla; Almetta, Almond Milk Mousse, Strawberry; Almond Peanut Butter Bliss Ball when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
30 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 60 of 79 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 Extract
Across the 83 products on this site that list Vanilla Bean Extract, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 5.1x more often with Vanilla Bean Extract than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vanilla Bean Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 6 | 7.2% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 7.2% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 7.2% | 5.7% |
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 Extract
Products Containing Vanilla Bean Extract
High-volume slice (16 of 83) for products naming Vanilla Bean Extract:
Vanilla Bean Extract vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Vanilla Bean Extract: 83 products, mean screening score 96/100. Nearest count peers include “Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3”, “Blue 1 & 2”, “Brominated Soybean Oil”. 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.
What to do with this Vanilla Bean Extract record
Use the 83-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Vanilla Bean Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Vanilla Bean Extract next to “Blue 1 & 2” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Vanilla Bean Extract — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vanilla Bean Extract? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vanilla Bean Extract, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,577 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilla Bean Extract? ▼
Vanilla Bean Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,577 of 247,206), appearing in 83 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vanilla Bean Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilla Bean Extract appears in 83 products (#3,577 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilla Bean Extract). 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.