Vegetable
Vegetable appears in 253 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
Vegetable appears in 253 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.
- 253
- catalogued products
- #1,677
- usage rank of 247,206
- 137
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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: 77 of 253 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12 Flavor Gummi Bears; 70% Dark Cocoa KitKat; Advanced Magnesium+ to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vegetable itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
77 of 253 linked records have some flagged component
All 241 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 Vegetable - usage rank #1,677
- Usage rank
- #1,677
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 253 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Mean relative depth 49% across 253 parsed labels, slot 10.8 on average. Vegetable tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Vegetable
Across the 253 products on this site that list Vegetable, 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 2.6x more often with Vegetable than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 36 | 14.2% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 35 | 13.8% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 32 | 12.6% | 4.2% |
| Red 3 | 32 | 12.6% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 22 | 8.7% | 5.7% |
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 Vegetable
Products Containing Vegetable
16 busy labels from the 253 indexed products that list Vegetable:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Anchovy Extract”)
Top-decile company for Vegetable: 253 listings averaging 84.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Anchovy Extract · Anhydrous Milk Fat · Milk And Cream.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Vegetable page
253 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vegetable are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vegetable to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Vegetable with a peer such as “Anchovy Extract” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Vegetable 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 Vegetable. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable? ▼
Vegetable ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,677 of 247,206), appearing in 253 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable appears in 253 products (#1,677 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable). 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.