Vanilla Bean Paste
Vanilla Bean Paste appears in 36 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 Paste appears in 36 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.
- 36
- catalogued products
- #6,225
- usage rank of 247,206
- 19
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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 Paste - usage rank #6,225
- Usage rank
- #6,225
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 114 others that also appear in exactly 36 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 36 products listing it (mean slot 14.6). Vanilla Bean Paste usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vanilla Bean Paste spans 19 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Almondmilk Vanilla Pudding; Cake By The Slice; Chia pod when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
19 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 31 of 33 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.
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 Paste
Products Containing Vanilla Bean Paste
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 36 indexed products containing Vanilla Bean Paste:
High-volume peers for Vanilla Bean Paste
Top-decile company for Vanilla Bean Paste: 36 listings averaging 97.9/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Vanilla Bean Paste record
Start from Vanilla Bean Paste's 36 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vanilla Bean Paste to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Vanilla Bean Paste — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vanilla Bean Paste? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vanilla Bean Paste, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,225 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilla Bean Paste? ▼
Vanilla Bean Paste ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,225 of 247,206), appearing in 36 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vanilla Bean Paste so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilla Bean Paste appears in 36 products (#6,225 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilla Bean Paste). 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.