Vegetable Flavor
Vegetable Flavor appears in 126 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 Flavor appears in 126 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.
- 126
- catalogued products
- #2,674
- usage rank of 247,206
- 38
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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 Flavor - usage rank #2,674
- Usage rank
- #2,674
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 17 others that also appear in exactly 126 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Flavor in the lower half of the list (51% of list length, mean slot 15.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Flavor spans 38 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Artisan bistro, spiced chicken morocco inspired entree; Authentic Chipotle Salsa; Bacon, egg & cheese smoke flavored bacon with scrambled eggs & cheddar cheese in a crispy golden crust breakfast stuffed sandwiches, bacon, egg & cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
38 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 125 of 126 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 Flavor
Across the 126 products on this site that list Vegetable 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 6 | 4.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 4.8% | 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 Flavor
Products Containing Vegetable Flavor
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 126 indexed products containing Vegetable Flavor:
High-volume peers for Vegetable Flavor beside “Breader”
High-volume peers for Vegetable Flavor: 126 products, mean screening score 98.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Breader · Breading Set In Vegetable Oil · Chili Pepper Powder. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Flavor page
Start from Vegetable Flavor's 126 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Flavor and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Vegetable Flavor with a peer such as “Breader” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Flavor? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Flavor, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,674 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Flavor? ▼
Vegetable Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,674 of 247,206), appearing in 126 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Flavor appears in 126 products (#2,674 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable 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.