Vegetable Protein
Vegetable Protein appears in 142 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 Protein appears in 142 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.
- 142
- catalogued products
- #2,439
- usage rank of 247,206
- 50
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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 Protein - usage rank #2,439
- Usage rank
- #2,439
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 142 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Protein in the lower half of the list (55% of list length, mean slot 19.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Protein spans 50 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 4 Quinoa and Rice Protein Burgers; 5 Cheese Texas Toast; Artesano bakery bread Brioche Style when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
50 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 137 of 142 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 Protein
Across the 142 products on this site that list Vegetable Protein, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.6x more often with Vegetable Protein than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Protein products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 9.2% | 5.7% |
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 Protein
Products Containing Vegetable Protein
High-volume slice (16 of 142) for products naming Vegetable Protein:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Arrowroot”)
Vegetable Protein sits among other busy catalog rows (142 products, mean score 97.2/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Arrowroot; Carbonated Mineral Water; Cassava. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Vegetable Protein evidence
Start from Vegetable Protein's 142 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vegetable Protein to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Vegetable Protein
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Protein? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Protein, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,439 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Protein? ▼
Vegetable Protein ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,439 of 247,206), appearing in 142 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Protein so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Protein appears in 142 products (#2,439 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Protein). 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.