Vanilla Salt

Vanilla Salt appears in 5 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 Salt appears in 5 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.

5
catalogued products
#24,708
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
96%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1 of 5 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Celtic Sea Salt Toffee; Cvs pharmacy, milk chocolate foiled hearts; Mickey Mouse & Friends Mini Milk Chocolate Bars to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vanilla Salt 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.

1 of 5 linked records have some flagged component

All 5 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.

High-volume listing for Vanilla Salt - usage rank #24,708

Usage rank
#24,708
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4,103 others that also appear in exactly 5 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
96%
Mean relative depth 96% across 5 parsed labels, slot 17.4 on average. Vanilla Salt tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 5 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 Salt

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 5 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 050100150 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Vanilla Salt Celtic Sea Salt ToffeeCvs pharmacy, milk chocolate foiled heartsMickey Mouse & Friends Mini Milk Chocolate BarsMilk Chocolate Foiled HeartsPeanut butter chocolate fudge cake
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.

High-volume peers for Vanilla Salt

Vanilla Salt sits among other busy catalog rows (5 products, mean score 80/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Vanilla Salt evidence

Start from Vanilla Salt's 5 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Vanilla Salt and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Vanilla Salt

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilla Salt?

Vanilla Salt ranks in the top decile by product count (#24,708 of 247,206), appearing in 5 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Vanilla Salt so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilla Salt appears in 5 products (#24,708 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilla Salt). 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.