Vitamin B5
Vitamin B5 appears in 1,420 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 B5 appears in 1,420 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.
- 1,420
- catalogued products
- #532
- usage rank of 247,206
- 284
- named brands represented
- 72%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
54.9% 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 B5 as the trigger. Open records such as 100% fruit juice smoothie boosts; AG1 Daily Foundational Nutrition; AG1 Tropical and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 79.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 72% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
54.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1386 of 1411 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.
Vitamin B5: top-decile catalog footprint (#532 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #532
- 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
- 72%
- Mean relative depth 72% across 1,420 parsed labels, slot 19.3 on average. Vitamin B5 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Vitamin B5
Across the 1,420 products on this site that list Vitamin B5, 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 11.8x more often with Vitamin B5 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin B5 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 453 | 31.9% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 228 | 16.1% | 5.4% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 207 | 14.6% | 1.8% |
| Yellow 5 | 201 | 14.2% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 154 | 10.8% | 4.2% |
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 B5
Products Containing Vitamin B5
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,420 indexed products containing Vitamin B5:
Vitamin B5 vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Vitamin B5 sits among other busy catalog rows (1,420 products, mean score 79.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Sodium Bisulfite; Garlic Puree; Potato. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Vitamin B5 page
Use the 1,420-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vitamin B5 to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Vitamin B5 next to “Garlic Puree” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 B5
How should I read safety signals when Vitamin B5 sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
54.9% 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 B5 is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamin B5? ▼
Vitamin B5 ranks in the top decile by product count (#532 of 247,206), appearing in 1,420 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vitamin B5 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vitamin B5 appears in 1,420 products (#532 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin B5). 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.