Vitamin D-3
Vitamin D-3 carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 49 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Vitamin D-3 appears in 49 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.
- 49
- catalogued products
- #5,044
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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 D-3 sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,044 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,044
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 64 others that also appear in exactly 49 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 49 parsed labels, slot 18.5 on average. Vitamin D-3 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 this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
57.1% 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 D-3 as the trigger. Open records such as Affy Tapple, White Chocolate Cinnamon Caramel Apple; Bars; Chocolate & caramel anytime bars, chocolate & caramel and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 65% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 48 of 49 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 D-3
Across the 49 products on this site that list Vitamin D-3, 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 10.9x more often with Vitamin D-3 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin D-3 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 24 | 49% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 10.2% | 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 D-3
Products Containing Vitamin D-3
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 49 indexed products containing Vitamin D-3:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Vitamin D-3: 49 products, mean screening score 87.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Vitamin D-3 record
Use the 49-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Vitamin D-3 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
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Vitamin D-3 — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Vitamin D-3 sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.1% 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 D-3 is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Vitamin D-3 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 D-3? ▼
Vitamin D-3 ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,044 of 247,206), appearing in 49 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Vitamin D-3 serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Vitamin D-3 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 D-3). 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.