Vegetable Protein Product

Vegetable Protein Product appears in 29 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 Product appears in 29 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.

29
catalogued products
#7,222
usage rank of 247,206
12
named brands represented
37%
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: 14 of 29 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Buffalo style chicken strips; Chicken Biscuit; Chicken Breast Nuggets to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Vegetable Protein Product itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

14 of 29 linked records have some flagged component

All 29 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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 Protein Product: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,222 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#7,222
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 199 others that also appear in exactly 29 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
37%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 29 products listing it (mean slot 19.5). Vegetable Protein Product 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.

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.

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 Product

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 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Vegetable Protein Product
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 Protein Product

Vegetable Protein Product sits among other busy catalog rows (29 products, mean score 93.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

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 Protein Product record

Start from Vegetable Protein Product's 29 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Vegetable Protein Product 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
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

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

Vegetable Protein Product — common follow-ups

Does Vegetable Protein Product 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 Protein Product. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Protein Product?

Vegetable Protein Product ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Vegetable Protein Product so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Protein Product appears in 29 products (#7,222 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Protein Product). 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.