Dried Vinegar

Dried Vinegar appears in 24,404 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

Dried Vinegar appears in 24,404 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.

24,404
catalogued products
#39
usage rank of 247,206
4,326
named brands represented
49%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 7125 of 24404 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1-Step Coleslaw Maker Dressing; 100% all natural medium salsa, medium; 100% Grass Fed Wagyu Beef Uncured Hotdogs to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Dried Vinegar itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

7125 of 24,404 linked records have some flagged component

All 23810 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.

Dried Vinegar sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#39 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#39
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 24,503 products listing it (mean slot 12.3). Dried Vinegar usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 Dried Vinegar

Across the 24,404 products on this site that list Dried Vinegar, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.9x more often with Dried Vinegar than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +5.4ppCaramel Coloring+5.4ppPolysorbate 80: +5ppPolysorbate 80+5ppYellow 5: +1.1ppYellow 5+1.1ppCarrageenan: +0.4ppCarrageenan+0.4ppSodium Nitrite: +2.1ppSodium Nitrite+2.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Dried Vinegar products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
5.4pp
Polysorbate 80
5pp
Yellow 5
1.1pp
Carrageenan
0.4pp
Sodium Nitrite
2.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Dried Vinegar products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 2,708 11.1% 5.7%
Polysorbate 80 1,526 6.3% 1.3%
Yellow 5 1,432 5.9% 4.8%
Carrageenan 1,205 4.9% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 1,088 4.5% 2.4%

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 Dried Vinegar

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dried Vinegar
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Dried Vinegar vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Dried Vinegar sits among other busy catalog rows (24,404 products, mean score 95/100). Nearest count peers include “Red 40”, “Thiamin Mononitrate”, “Cocoa Butter”. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Dried Vinegar record

Start from Dried Vinegar's 24,404 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Dried Vinegar

Does Dried Vinegar 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 Dried Vinegar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Dried Vinegar?

Dried Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#39 of 247,206), appearing in 24,404 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Dried Vinegar so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dried Vinegar appears in 24,404 products (#39 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dried Vinegar). 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.