Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor
Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor appears in 75 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
Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor appears in 75 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.
- 75
- catalogued products
- #3,802
- usage rank of 247,206
- 31
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 17 of 75 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Almond Bark Milk Chocolate; Betsy Ann American Chocolates, Milk Chocolates; Betsy Ann, American Milk Chocolate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
17 of 75 linked records have some flagged component
All 73 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 Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor - usage rank #3,802
- Usage rank
- #3,802
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 37 others that also appear in exactly 75 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 75 products listing it (mean slot 10.5). Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor
Across the 75 products on this site that list Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.7x more often with Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 11 | 14.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 9.3% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 7 | 9.3% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 5 | 6.7% | 3.4% |
| Blue 2 | 5 | 6.7% | 0.9% |
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 Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor
Products Containing Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor
High-volume slice (16 of 75) for products naming Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor:
High-volume peers for Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor beside “Alfredo Sauce”
Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor sits among other busy catalog rows (75 products, mean score 88.5/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Alfredo Sauce; Amaranth Seeds; Ascorbic Acid Added As Dough Conditioner. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor page
Start from Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor's 75 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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 Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor
Does Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor 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 Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor? ▼
Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,802 of 247,206), appearing in 75 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor appears in 75 products (#3,802 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor). 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.