Vit A
Vit A appears in 34 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
Vit A appears in 34 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.
- 34
- catalogued products
- #6,452
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Vit A - usage rank #6,452
- Usage rank
- #6,452
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 125 others that also appear in exactly 34 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 34 parsed labels, slot 38.2 on average. Vit A tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vit A spans 8 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Bumpboosters, Pregnancy Cookie; Clover Chips; Dark chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 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 32 of 33 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 Vit A
Products Containing Vit A
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 34 indexed products containing Vit A:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Vit A: 34 products, mean screening score 98.5/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Vit A evidence
Start from Vit A's 34 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vit A to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Vit A
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vit A? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vit A, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,452 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vit A? ▼
Vit A ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vit A so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vit A appears in 34 products (#6,452 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vit A). 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.