Vanilla Bean Seeds

Vanilla Bean Seeds appears in 121 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 Seeds appears in 121 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.

121
catalogued products
#2,754
usage rank of 247,206
55
named brands represented
75%
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

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 27 of 121 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare All Natural Joe-joe's (chocolate With Vanilla Bean Cream); Almond milk yogurt; Bars to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vanilla Bean Seeds itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

27 of 121 linked records have some flagged component

All 120 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 Bean Seeds sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,754 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,754
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 121 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
75%
Mean relative depth 75% across 121 parsed labels, slot 15.1 on average. Vanilla Bean Seeds tends to sit near the end of the captured 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 Vanilla Bean Seeds

Across the 121 products on this site that list Vanilla Bean Seeds, 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 2.6x more often with Vanilla Bean Seeds than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +7.1ppCarrageenan+7.1ppPolysorbate 60: +6ppPolysorbate 60+6ppPolysorbate 80: +5.3ppPolysorbate 80+5.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Vanilla Bean Seeds products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
7.1pp
Polysorbate 60
6pp
Polysorbate 80
5.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Vanilla Bean Seeds products Share of all products
Carrageenan 14 11.6% 4.5%
Polysorbate 60 9 7.4% 1.4%
Polysorbate 80 8 6.6% 1.3%

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 Seeds

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Vanilla Bean Seeds
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Vanilla Bean Seeds vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Vanilla Bean Seeds: 121 products, mean screening score 96.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Cane Vinegar”, “Caramel Swirl”, “Fd&c Yellow #6 Lake”. 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.

Next steps from the Vanilla Bean Seeds page

Use the 121-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 Seeds and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Place Vanilla Bean Seeds next to “Caramel Swirl” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • 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

Does Vanilla Bean Seeds 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 Bean Seeds. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilla Bean Seeds?

Vanilla Bean Seeds ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,754 of 247,206), appearing in 121 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Vanilla Bean Seeds so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilla Bean Seeds appears in 121 products (#2,754 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilla Bean Seeds). 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.