Vegetable Shortening
Vegetable Shortening appears in 3,804 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 Shortening appears in 3,804 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.
- 3,804
- catalogued products
- #259
- usage rank of 247,206
- 758
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 1784 of 3804 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0875754000640; 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 1/2 Marble Grad Cake With Red Borders to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vegetable 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.
1784 of 3,804 linked records have some flagged component
All 3750 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 Shortening: top-decile catalog footprint (#259 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #259
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Shortening in the upper half of the list (37% of list length, mean slot 13.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Vegetable Shortening
Across the 3,804 products on this site that list Vegetable 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 17.2x more often with Vegetable Shortening than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Shortening products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 918 | 24.1% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 600 | 15.8% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 585 | 15.4% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 469 | 12.3% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 430 | 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 Shortening
Products Containing Vegetable Shortening
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 3,804 indexed products containing Vegetable Shortening:
Vegetable Shortening vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Vegetable Shortening sits among other busy catalog rows (3,804 products, mean score 80.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Mixed Tocopherols · Milk Fat · Enzyme. 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.
Using the Vegetable Shortening evidence
3,804 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vegetable Shortening are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Shortening and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Vegetable Shortening with a peer such as “Mixed Tocopherols” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Vegetable Shortening — common follow-ups
Does Vegetable 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 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 Shortening? ▼
Vegetable Shortening ranks in the top decile by product count (#259 of 247,206), appearing in 3,804 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Shortening so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Shortening appears in 3,804 products (#259 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable 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.