Vanilla Oleoresin
Vanilla Oleoresin appears in 11 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 Oleoresin appears in 11 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.
- 11
- catalogued products
- #14,190
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 82%
- 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 Oleoresin: top-decile catalog footprint (#14,190 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #14,190
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 82%
- Averaged label depth puts Vanilla Oleoresin near the end of the captured list (82% of list length, mean slot 14.4). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vanilla Oleoresin spans 3 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Bob's red mill yellow vanilla cake; Bobs red mill protein powder choc; Caramel & Salt Dark Chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
3 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 11 of 11 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 11 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 Oleoresin
Products Containing Vanilla Oleoresin
High-volume slice (11 of 11) for products naming Vanilla Oleoresin:
High-volume peers for Vanilla Oleoresin
Vanilla Oleoresin sits among other busy catalog rows (11 products, mean score 99.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Vanilla Oleoresin page
11 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vanilla Oleoresin are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Vanilla Oleoresin 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. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Vanilla Oleoresin — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vanilla Oleoresin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vanilla Oleoresin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#14,190 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilla Oleoresin? ▼
Vanilla Oleoresin ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vanilla Oleoresin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilla Oleoresin appears in 11 products (#14,190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilla Oleoresin). 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.