Vanilline
Vanilline appears in 14 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
Vanilline appears in 14 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.
- 14
- catalogued products
- #11,996
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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.
Vanilline: top-decile catalog footprint (#11,996 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #11,996
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 643 others that also appear in exactly 14 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 14 products listing it (mean slot 13.2). Vanilline usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 7.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vanilline spans 11 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Biscuits croquants au coeur onctueux de Nutella®; Cerelac Maize; dolcenero when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
11 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 12 of 13 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 14 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 Vanilline
Products Containing Vanilline
A sample of 14 high-volume listings among the 14 indexed products containing Vanilline:
Vanilline vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Vanilline: 14 products, mean screening score 98.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Vanilline record
Start from Vanilline's 14 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vanilline to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Vanilline
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vanilline? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vanilline, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#11,996 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vanilline? ▼
Vanilline ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,996 of 247,206), appearing in 14 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vanilline so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vanilline appears in 14 products (#11,996 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vanilline). 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.