Vitamin A Palmitate Added

Vitamin A Palmitate Added appears in 907 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

Vitamin A Palmitate Added appears in 907 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.

907
catalogued products
#713
usage rank of 247,206
229
named brands represented
69%
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: 409 of 907 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 24/7 Chocolate Edible Cookie Dough, 24/7 Chocolate; 39% vegetable oil spread; 39% vegetable oil spread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vitamin A Palmitate Added itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

409 of 907 linked records have some flagged component

All 907 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.

Vitamin A Palmitate Added: top-decile catalog footprint (#713 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#713
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
69%
Averaged label depth puts Vitamin A Palmitate Added in the lower half of the list (69% of list length, mean slot 28.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What else is usually in the same product as Vitamin A Palmitate Added

Across the 907 products on this site that list Vitamin A Palmitate Added, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.8x more often with Vitamin A Palmitate Added than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +8.3ppCarrageenan+8.3ppCaramel Coloring: +6ppCaramel Coloring+6ppPolysorbate 60: +7.8ppPolysorbate 60+7.8ppRed 40: +2.6ppRed 40+2.6ppSodium Nitrite: +4.5ppSodium Nitrite+4.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Vitamin A Palmitate Added products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Carrageenan
8.3pp
Caramel Coloring
6pp
Polysorbate 60
7.8pp
Red 40
2.6pp
Sodium Nitrite
4.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Vitamin A Palmitate Added products Share of all products
Carrageenan 116 12.8% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 106 11.7% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 83 9.2% 1.4%
Red 40 73 8% 5.4%
Sodium Nitrite 63 6.9% 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 Vitamin A Palmitate Added

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Vitamin A Palmitate Added
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cultured Skim Milk”)

Vitamin A Palmitate Added sits among other busy catalog rows (907 products, mean score 87.2/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cultured Skim Milk; Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali; Defatted Soy Flour. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

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

Using the Vitamin A Palmitate Added evidence

Start from Vitamin A Palmitate Added's 907 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Vitamin A Palmitate Added and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • 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. Open 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 Palmitate Added

Does Vitamin A Palmitate Added 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 Vitamin A Palmitate Added. 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 Palmitate Added?

Vitamin A Palmitate Added ranks in the top decile by product count (#713 of 247,206), appearing in 907 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Vitamin A Palmitate Added so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vitamin A Palmitate Added appears in 907 products (#713 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin A Palmitate Added). 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.