Vanilla Flavour
Vanilla Flavour appears in 76 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 Flavour appears in 76 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.
- 76
- catalogued products
- #3,767
- usage rank of 247,206
- 38
- 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.
Vanilla Flavour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,767 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,767
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 34 others that also appear in exactly 76 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Averaged label depth puts Vanilla Flavour near the end of the captured list (75% of list length, mean slot 12.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vanilla Flavour spans 38 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Almond Biscuit Sticks; Almonds & Buckwheat Super Cereal; Banana Bread Crisps- Chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
38 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 76 of 76 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 Flavour
Across the 76 products on this site that list Vanilla Flavour, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vanilla Flavour products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 5 | 6.6% | 4.5% |
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 Flavour
Products Containing Vanilla Flavour
16 busy labels from the 76 indexed products that list Vanilla Flavour:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Aspartame+”)
Vanilla Flavour sits among other busy catalog rows (76 products, mean score 98.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Aspartame+”, “Bacillus Subtilis”, “Batter Mix”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Using the Vanilla Flavour evidence
76 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vanilla Flavour are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Vanilla Flavour and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Vanilla Flavour
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vanilla Flavour? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vanilla Flavour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,767 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilla Flavour? ▼
Vanilla Flavour ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,767 of 247,206), appearing in 76 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vanilla Flavour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilla Flavour appears in 76 products (#3,767 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilla Flavour). 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.