Vegetable Color
Vegetable Color appears in 2,081 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 Color appears in 2,081 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.
- 2,081
- catalogued products
- #398
- usage rank of 247,206
- 338
- named brands represented
- 75%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Vegetable Color - usage rank #398
- Usage rank
- #398
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Color near the end of the captured list (75% of list length, mean slot 13.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Color spans 338 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 100% juice; 100% juice; 100% Juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
338 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2045 of 2077 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Vegetable Color
Across the 2,081 products on this site that list Vegetable Color, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 2.8x more often with Vegetable Color than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Color products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 139 | 6.7% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 100 | 4.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 61 | 2.9% | 4.5% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 19 | 0.9% | 0.2% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 17 | 0.8% | 1.4% |
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 Color
Products Containing Vegetable Color
16 busy labels from the 2,081 indexed products that list Vegetable Color:
Vegetable Color vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Vegetable Color: 2,081 listings averaging 97.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: White Pepper · Glycerine · Spice Extractives.
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.
What to do with this Vegetable Color record
2,081 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vegetable Color are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Color and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Vegetable Color with a peer such as “White Pepper” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Vegetable Color — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Color? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Color, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#398 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Color? ▼
Vegetable Color ranks in the top decile by product count (#398 of 247,206), appearing in 2,081 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Color so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Color appears in 2,081 products (#398 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Color). 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.