Vegetable Rennet

Vegetable Rennet appears in 141 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 Rennet appears in 141 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.

141
catalogued products
#2,456
usage rank of 247,206
45
named brands represented
67%
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 Rennet - usage rank #2,456

Usage rank
#2,456
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 141 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
67%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 141 products listing it (mean slot 8.9). Vegetable Rennet usually falls in the lower 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 2.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Rennet spans 45 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Amaltheia organic dairy llc, organic goat cheese, roasted garlic & chive chere; Apple pie; Blue Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

45 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 81 of 135 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.

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 Rennet

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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Vegetable Rennet
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Apo-carotenal”)

High-volume peers for Vegetable Rennet: 141 products, mean screening score 99.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Apo-carotenal; Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid; Crushed Red Peppers. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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.

What to do with this Vegetable Rennet record

141 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vegetable Rennet are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Vegetable Rennet 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. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Vegetable Rennet — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Rennet?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Rennet, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,456 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Rennet?

Vegetable Rennet ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,456 of 247,206), appearing in 141 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Vegetable Rennet so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Rennet appears in 141 products (#2,456 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Rennet). 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.