Vinegar Flavor

Vinegar Flavor appears in 15 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

Vinegar Flavor appears in 15 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.

15
catalogued products
#11,449
usage rank of 247,206
10
named brands represented
48%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

53.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Vinegar Flavor as the trigger. Open records such as Boneless pork rib shaped patty with bbq sauce & mashed potatoes; British Hand Cooked Potato Chips, Sea Salt & Malted Vinegar; Honey BBQ Chicken Wings and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 93.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 48% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

53.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 13 of 15 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Vinegar Flavor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#11,449 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#11,449
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
48%
Mean relative depth 48% across 15 parsed labels, slot 16.3 on average. Vinegar Flavor tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 15 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 Vinegar Flavor

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 15 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 5060708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Vinegar Flavor
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.

Vinegar Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Vinegar Flavor: 15 listings averaging 93.7/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Vinegar Flavor page

15 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vinegar Flavor are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Vinegar Flavor 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. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

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

Questions readers ask about Vinegar Flavor

How should I read safety signals when Vinegar Flavor sits in heavily flagged products?

53.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Vinegar Flavor is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Vinegar Flavor?

Vinegar Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Vinegar Flavor so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vinegar Flavor appears in 15 products (#11,449 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vinegar Flavor). 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.