Vegetable Oil Spread

Vegetable Oil Spread appears in 38 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 Spread appears in 38 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.

38
catalogued products
#6,007
usage rank of 247,206
13
named brands represented
19%
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: 16 of 38 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Baked wheat cake; Baked Wheat Cake Green Tea; Bimbo roles to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Vegetable Oil Spread itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

16 of 38 linked records have some flagged component

All 38 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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 Spread sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,007 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,007
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 118 others that also appear in exactly 38 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
19%
Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Oil Spread near the top of the captured list (19% of list length, mean slot 8.1). 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 Spread

Across the 38 products on this site that list Vegetable Oil Spread, 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. TBHQ shows up about 42.2x more often with Vegetable Oil Spread than in the catalogue at large.

TBHQ: +20.6ppTBHQ+20.6ppRed 40: +7.8ppRed 40+7.8ppYellow 5: +8.4ppYellow 5+8.4ppYellow 6: +9.8ppYellow 6+9.8pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Vegetable Oil Spread products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

TBHQ
20.6pp
Red 40
7.8pp
Yellow 5
8.4pp
Yellow 6
9.8pp
Additive Shared products Share of Vegetable Oil Spread products Share of all products
TBHQ 8 21.1% 0.5%
Red 40 5 13.2% 5.4%
Yellow 5 5 13.2% 4.8%
Yellow 6 5 13.2% 3.4%

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 Spread

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Vegetable Oil Spread
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Vegetable Oil Spread

High-volume peers for Vegetable Oil Spread: 38 products, mean screening score 85/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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 Oil Spread page

Start from Vegetable Oil Spread's 38 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Vegetable Oil Spread

Does Vegetable Oil Spread 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 Spread. 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 Spread?

Vegetable Oil Spread ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,007 of 247,206), appearing in 38 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Vegetable Oil Spread so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Oil Spread appears in 38 products (#6,007 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Oil Spread). 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.