Vegetable Glycerol
Vegetable Glycerol appears in 34 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 Glycerol appears in 34 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.
- 34
- catalogued products
- #6,452
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
Vegetable Glycerol sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,452 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,452
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 125 others that also appear in exactly 34 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 34 products listing it (mean slot 12.9). Vegetable Glycerol 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Glycerol spans 8 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 4 White Rolls; 6 classic French Madeleines imp; Brioche Buns when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 34 of 34 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 Glycerol
Across the 34 products on this site that list Vegetable Glycerol, 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 103x more often with Vegetable Glycerol than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Glycerol products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 7 | 20.6% | 0.2% |
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 Glycerol
Products Containing Vegetable Glycerol
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 34 indexed products containing Vegetable Glycerol:
Vegetable Glycerol vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Vegetable Glycerol: 34 products, mean screening score 99.6/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Glycerol record
Start from Vegetable Glycerol's 34 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Glycerol and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Vegetable Glycerol
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Glycerol? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Glycerol, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,452 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Glycerol? ▼
Vegetable Glycerol ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Glycerol so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Glycerol appears in 34 products (#6,452 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Glycerol). 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.