Vegetable Oil Shortening
Vegetable Oil Shortening appears in 762 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 Shortening appears in 762 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.
- 762
- catalogued products
- #792
- usage rank of 247,206
- 163
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 327 of 762 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 8 Gingerbread Cookies To Decorate; 9" Pie Crusts Regular Dish; Almond Crusted Flounder to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vegetable Oil Shortening 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.
327 of 762 linked records have some flagged component
All 755 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 Shortening sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#792 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #792
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Oil Shortening in the upper half of the list (41% of list length, mean slot 14.4). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Vegetable Oil Shortening
Across the 762 products on this site that list Vegetable Oil Shortening, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 16.8x more often with Vegetable Oil Shortening than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Oil Shortening products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 179 | 23.5% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 124 | 16.3% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 118 | 15.5% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 88 | 11.5% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 86 | 11.3% | 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 Shortening
Products Containing Vegetable Oil Shortening
16 busy labels from the 762 indexed products that list Vegetable Oil Shortening:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cultured Wheat Starch”)
Vegetable Oil Shortening sits among other busy catalog rows (762 products, mean score 81.3/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cultured Wheat Starch; Maple Sugar; Dv. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Vegetable Oil Shortening page
762 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vegetable Oil Shortening are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Oil Shortening and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Vegetable Oil Shortening 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 Shortening. 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 Shortening? ▼
Vegetable Oil Shortening ranks in the top decile by product count (#792 of 247,206), appearing in 762 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Oil Shortening so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Oil Shortening appears in 762 products (#792 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Oil Shortening). 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.