Vit B12
Vit B12 appears in 50 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 B12 appears in 50 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.
- 50
- catalogued products
- #4,971
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 13 of 50 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Blue Raspberry; Bumpboosters, Pregnancy Cookie; Cran-Energy Energy Drink Cranberry Raspberry to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Vit B12 itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
13 of 50 linked records have some flagged component
All 49 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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.
Vit B12 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,971 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,971
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 50 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 93%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 50 products listing it (mean slot 27.5). Vit B12 usually falls near the end of the captured 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 Vit B12
Across the 50 products on this site that list Vit B12, 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. Sucralose shows up about 8.1x more often with Vit B12 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vit B12 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 11 | 22% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 5 | 10% | 1.8% |
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 Vit B12
Products Containing Vit B12
16 busy labels from the 50 indexed products that list Vit B12:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “2% Dv”)
High-volume peers for Vit B12: 50 products, mean screening score 93.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 2% Dv; 5 %; Active Yogurt With L. Bulgaricus. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Using the Vit B12 evidence
Start from Vit B12's 50 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Vit B12 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Vit B12 — common follow-ups
Does Vit B12 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 Vit B12. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vit B12? ▼
Vit B12 ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,971 of 247,206), appearing in 50 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vit B12 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vit B12 appears in 50 products (#4,971 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vit B12). 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.