Vidalia Onions
Vidalia Onions appears in 42 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
Vidalia Onions appears in 42 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.
- 42
- catalogued products
- #5,603
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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.
Vidalia Onions sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,603 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,603
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 93 others that also appear in exactly 42 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 33%
- Mean relative depth 33% across 42 parsed labels, slot 6.6 on average. Vidalia Onions tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vidalia Onions spans 17 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Beef Patties; Braswell's, Sweet Pepper Vinaigrette Gourmet Dressing; Chinese Southern Belle, You Saucy Thing Soy Ginger Sauce, Georgia Vidalia Sweet Onion when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
17 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 38 of 41 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 Vidalia Onions
Products Containing Vidalia Onions
16 busy labels from the 42 indexed products that list Vidalia Onions:
High-volume peers for Vidalia Onions
Top-decile company for Vidalia Onions: 42 listings averaging 97.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Vidalia Onions page
Start from Vidalia Onions's 42 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vidalia Onions and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vidalia Onions? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vidalia Onions, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,603 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vidalia Onions? ▼
Vidalia Onions ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,603 of 247,206), appearing in 42 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vidalia Onions so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vidalia Onions appears in 42 products (#5,603 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vidalia Onions). 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.