Vegetarian Enzyme
Vegetarian Enzyme appears in 56 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 Enzyme appears in 56 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.
- 56
- catalogued products
- #4,615
- usage rank of 247,206
- 9
- named brands represented
- 93%
- 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 Enzyme: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,615 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,615
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 54 others that also appear in exactly 56 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 93%
- Mean relative depth 93% across 56 parsed labels, slot 5.6 on average. Vegetarian Enzyme tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 1.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vegetarian Enzyme spans 9 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 3 Cheese Italian; Aged goat cheese; American Premium Pasteurized Prepared Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
9 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 36 of 47 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 Enzyme
Products Containing Vegetarian Enzyme
High-volume slice (16 of 56) for products naming Vegetarian Enzyme:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Almond Base”)
Vegetarian Enzyme sits among other busy catalog rows (56 products, mean score 99.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Almond Base”, “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture”, “Beta-carotene For Color”. 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.
Next steps from the Vegetarian Enzyme page
56 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vegetarian Enzyme are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Vegetarian Enzyme and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Vegetarian Enzyme next to “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Vegetarian Enzyme
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vegetarian Enzyme? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vegetarian Enzyme, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,615 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetarian Enzyme? ▼
Vegetarian Enzyme ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,615 of 247,206), appearing in 56 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetarian Enzyme so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetarian Enzyme appears in 56 products (#4,615 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetarian Enzyme). 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.