Vegetable Glycerin
Vegetable Glycerin appears in 2,216 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 Glycerin appears in 2,216 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.
- 2,216
- catalogued products
- #376
- usage rank of 247,206
- 386
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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 Glycerin - usage rank #376
- Usage rank
- #376
- 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
- 46%
- Mean relative depth 46% across 2,216 parsed labels, slot 11.8 on average. Vegetable Glycerin tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 17.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Glycerin spans 386 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 20 ct PB&Js Multipack - 10 PB&Js Strawberry & 10 PB&Js Grape; 20 mini choco cakes; 24g Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Flavor Protein Bar when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
386 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2212 of 2213 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 Glycerin
Across the 2,216 products on this site that list Vegetable Glycerin, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 14.6x more often with Vegetable Glycerin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Glycerin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 162 | 7.3% | 0.5% |
| Sucralose | 145 | 6.5% | 2.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 108 | 4.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 85 | 3.8% | 4.5% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 53 | 2.4% | 2.1% |
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 Glycerin
Products Containing Vegetable Glycerin
High-volume slice (16 of 2,216) for products naming Vegetable Glycerin:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Starch”)
Top-decile company for Vegetable Glycerin: 2,216 listings averaging 96.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Starch · Beta-carotene · Agar.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Vegetable Glycerin page
Start from Vegetable Glycerin's 2,216 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Glycerin and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Vegetable Glycerin with a peer such as “Starch” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Glycerin? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Glycerin, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#376 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Glycerin? ▼
Vegetable Glycerin ranks in the top decile by product count (#376 of 247,206), appearing in 2,216 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Glycerin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Glycerin appears in 2,216 products (#376 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Glycerin). 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.