Vegetarian
Vegetarian appears in 19 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
Vegetarian appears in 19 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.
- 19
- catalogued products
- #9,730
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 94%
- 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.
Vegetarian sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,730 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,730
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 368 others that also appear in exactly 19 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 94%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 19 products listing it (mean slot 15.5). Vegetarian usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 5.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetarian spans 8 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 12 White Rolls; Clawson, blue shropshire cheese; Extra Sharp White Cheddar 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.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 17 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 Vegetarian
Products Containing Vegetarian
16 busy labels from the 19 indexed products that list Vegetarian:
High-volume peers for Vegetarian
Vegetarian sits among other busy catalog rows (19 products, mean score 99.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Vegetarian record
Use the 19-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vegetarian 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. Compare a peer
- 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.
Vegetarian — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetarian? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetarian, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,730 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetarian? ▼
Vegetarian ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,730 of 247,206), appearing in 19 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetarian so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetarian appears in 19 products (#9,730 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetarian). 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.