Natural Vanilla Flavoring
Natural Vanilla Flavoring appears in 260 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
Natural Vanilla Flavoring appears in 260 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.
- 260
- catalogued products
- #1,630
- usage rank of 247,206
- 113
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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.
Natural Vanilla Flavoring: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,630 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,630
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 262 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Mean relative depth 70% across 262 parsed labels, slot 13.6 on average. Natural Vanilla Flavoring tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Natural Vanilla Flavoring spans 113 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 36 French Macarons; 36 french macarons; Abbott, Glucerna, Nutrition Bars, Peanut Chocolate Chip, Peanut Chocolate Chip when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
113 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 260 of 260 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 Natural Vanilla Flavoring
Across the 260 products on this site that list Natural Vanilla Flavoring, 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 2.7x more often with Natural Vanilla Flavoring than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Vanilla Flavoring products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 32 | 12.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 15 | 5.8% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 10 | 3.8% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 2.7% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 6 | 2.3% | 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 Natural Vanilla Flavoring
Products Containing Natural Vanilla Flavoring
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 260 indexed products containing Natural Vanilla Flavoring:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Blackberry”)
High-volume peers for Natural Vanilla Flavoring: 260 products, mean screening score 95.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Blackberry; Atlantic Salmon; Manzanilla Olives. 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 Natural Vanilla Flavoring page
Start from Natural Vanilla Flavoring's 260 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Natural Vanilla Flavoring to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Natural Vanilla Flavoring with a peer such as “Blackberry” on 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Natural Vanilla Flavoring
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Natural Vanilla Flavoring? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Natural Vanilla Flavoring, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,630 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Vanilla Flavoring? ▼
Natural Vanilla Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,630 of 247,206), appearing in 260 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Vanilla Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Vanilla Flavoring appears in 260 products (#1,630 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Vanilla Flavoring). 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.