Vitamin A
Vitamin A carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,054 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Vitamin A appears in 2,054 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 2,054
- catalogued products
- #399
- usage rank of 247,206
- 513
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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.
Vitamin A: top-decile catalog footprint (#399 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #399
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,054 products listing it (mean slot 21.1). Vitamin A usually falls in the lower 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 this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 695 of 2054 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1% lowfat milk; 100% fruit juice smoothie boosts; 100% Juice Pineapple to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vitamin A itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
695 of 2,054 linked records have some flagged component
All 2003 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Vitamin A
Across the 2,054 products on this site that list Vitamin A, 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. Red 40 shows up about 1.9x more often with Vitamin A than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin A products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 206 | 10% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 192 | 9.3% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 161 | 7.8% | 4.2% |
| Sucralose | 158 | 7.7% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 133 | 6.5% | 4.5% |
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.
Function
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
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 Vitamin A
Products Containing Vitamin A
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 2,054 indexed products containing Vitamin A:
High-volume peers for Vitamin A beside “Cayenne Pepper”
Vitamin A sits among other busy catalog rows (2,054 products, mean score 90/100). Nearest count peers include “Cayenne Pepper”, “Kale”, “Vegetable Color”. 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 Vitamin A record
Start from Vitamin A's 2,054 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vitamin A and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Vitamin A
Does Vitamin A carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Vitamin A itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamin A? ▼
Vitamin A ranks in the top decile by product count (#399 of 247,206), appearing in 2,054 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Vitamin A do in food? ▼
Vitamin A is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin 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.