Vegetable Stock
Vegetable Stock appears in 434 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 Stock appears in 434 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.
- 434
- catalogued products
- #1,137
- usage rank of 247,206
- 134
- named brands represented
- 26%
- 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.
Vegetable Stock: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,137 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,137
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 434 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 26%
- Mean relative depth 26% across 434 parsed labels, slot 9.2 on average. Vegetable Stock tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetable Stock spans 134 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 100% Artisan Foods, 100% Tamales, Jalapeno Pepper & Queso Fresco; 100% natural bone broth chicken; 100% Tamales, Black Beans & Queso Chihuahua when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
134 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 349 of 417 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 Stock
Across the 434 products on this site that list Vegetable Stock, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Stock products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 32 | 7.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 1.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrate | 5 | 1.2% | 0.2% |
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 Stock
Products Containing Vegetable Stock
High-volume slice (16 of 434) for products naming Vegetable Stock:
High-volume peers for Vegetable Stock beside “Cheese Flavor”
Vegetable Stock sits among other busy catalog rows (434 products, mean score 98.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Cheese Flavor”, “Cacao”, “Copper Sulfate”. 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.
What to do with this Vegetable Stock record
Start from Vegetable Stock's 434 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Stock and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Vegetable Stock with a peer such as “Cheese Flavor” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Vegetable Stock
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetable Stock? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetable Stock, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,137 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Stock? ▼
Vegetable Stock ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,137 of 247,206), appearing in 434 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Stock so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Stock appears in 434 products (#1,137 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable Stock). 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.