Vegetable Oil
Vegetable Oil appears in 25,376 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 Oil appears in 25,376 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.
- 25,376
- catalogued products
- #34
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,290
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 7537 of 25376 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 1/2 Loaf; 1/2 Pie - Pumpkin to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vegetable Oil itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
7537 of 25,376 linked records have some flagged component
All 24888 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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 Oil sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#34 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #34
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Oil in the upper half of the list (31% of list length, mean slot 9.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Vegetable Oil
Across the 25,376 products on this site that list Vegetable Oil, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 2.1x more often with Vegetable Oil than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 2,596 | 10.2% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 2,452 | 9.7% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 2,229 | 8.8% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 2,150 | 8.5% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 1,618 | 6.4% | 4.2% |
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 Oil
Products Containing Vegetable Oil
16 busy labels from the 25,376 indexed products that list Vegetable Oil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Color”)
Vegetable Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (25,376 products, mean score 88/100). Nearest count peers include “Color”, “Preservative”, “Guar Gum”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
What to do with this Vegetable Oil record
Start from Vegetable Oil's 25,376 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Oil and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Vegetable Oil next to “Preservative” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Oil
Does Vegetable Oil 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 Oil. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Oil? ▼
Vegetable Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#34 of 247,206), appearing in 25,376 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Oil appears in 25,376 products (#34 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Oil). 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.