Vitamin B-12
Vitamin B-12 carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 156 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Vitamin B-12 appears in 156 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.
- 156
- catalogued products
- #2,296
- usage rank of 247,206
- 52
- named brands represented
- 86%
- 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 B-12: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,296 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,296
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 12 others that also appear in exactly 156 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 86%
- Mean relative depth 86% across 156 parsed labels, slot 25.9 on average. Vitamin B-12 tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
53.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Vitamin B-12 as the trigger. Open records such as 51 Fifty, Energy Drink, Fruit Punch; 51 Fifty, Energy Drink, Grape; 51 Fifty, Sugar Free Energy Drink and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 86.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 86% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 152 of 154 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Vitamin B-12
Across the 156 products on this site that list Vitamin B-12, 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 13.3x more often with Vitamin B-12 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin B-12 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 56 | 35.9% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 29 | 18.6% | 1.8% |
| Carrageenan | 14 | 9% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 7.7% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 9 | 5.8% | 5.4% |
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.
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 B-12
Products Containing Vitamin B-12
16 busy labels from the 156 indexed products that list Vitamin B-12:
High-volume peers for Vitamin B-12 beside “Organic Apple Cider”
High-volume peers for Vitamin B-12: 156 products, mean screening score 86.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Apple Cider · Cashew Nuts · Chardonnay Wine. 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.
Next steps from the Vitamin B-12 page
156 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vitamin B-12 are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Vitamin B-12 before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Vitamin B-12 — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Vitamin B-12 sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Vitamin B-12 is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Vitamin B-12 scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "GRAS". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamin B-12? ▼
Vitamin B-12 ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,296 of 247,206), appearing in 156 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Vitamin B-12 serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Vitamin B-12 is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin B-12). 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.