Vegetable Base
Vegetable Base appears in 332 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 Base appears in 332 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.
- 332
- catalogued products
- #1,378
- usage rank of 247,206
- 106
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 83 of 332 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, roasted vegetable lasagna; American Kitchen Chicken Pot Pie; Ancient Grain Minestrone to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Vegetable Base itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
83 of 332 linked records have some flagged component
All 322 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.
Vegetable Base: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,378 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,378
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 332 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 332 products listing it (mean slot 17.5). Vegetable Base usually falls in the upper 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 Vegetable Base
Across the 332 products on this site that list Vegetable Base, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.6x more often with Vegetable Base than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Base products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 50 | 15.1% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 29 | 8.7% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 2.4% | 2.4% |
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 Base
Products Containing Vegetable Base
16 busy labels from the 332 indexed products that list Vegetable Base:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Calcium Propionate And Sorbic Acid”)
Top-decile company for Vegetable Base: 332 listings averaging 97.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Calcium Propionate And Sorbic Acid”, “Red Raspberries”, “Caramelized Sugar”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Vegetable Base evidence
Use the 332-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vegetable Base to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Vegetable Base next to “Red Raspberries” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Vegetable Base — common follow-ups
Does Vegetable Base 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 Base. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Base? ▼
Vegetable Base ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,378 of 247,206), appearing in 332 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Base so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Base appears in 332 products (#1,378 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Base). 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.