Vitamin D2
Vitamin D2 appears in 1,124 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 D2 appears in 1,124 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.
- 1,124
- catalogued products
- #614
- usage rank of 247,206
- 211
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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 D2: top-decile catalog footprint (#614 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #614
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 1,124 products, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,124 products listing it (mean slot 13.8). Vitamin D2 usually falls near the end of the captured 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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vitamin D2 spans 211 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% pure juice; 365 everyday value, organic light soymilk, original; 8G Protein Per Cup Soymilk when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
211 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1053 of 1115 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Vitamin D2
Across the 1,124 products on this site that list Vitamin D2, 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 2.9x more often with Vitamin D2 than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin D2 products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 148 | 13.2% | 4.5% |
| Monk fruit extract | 25 | 2.2% | 0.5% |
| Sucralose | 19 | 1.7% | 2.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 0.6% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 0.4% | 5.7% |
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 D2
Products Containing Vitamin D2
High-volume slice (16 of 1,124) for products naming Vitamin D2:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Palmitate”)
Vitamin D2 sits among other busy catalog rows (1,124 products, mean score 98.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Palmitate”, “Chives”, “Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil”. 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.
What to do with this Vitamin D2 record
1,124 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Vitamin D2 are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Vitamin D2 to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Vitamin D2
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vitamin D2? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vitamin D2, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#614 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamin D2? ▼
Vitamin D2 ranks in the top decile by product count (#614 of 247,206), appearing in 1,124 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vitamin D2 so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vitamin D2 appears in 1,124 products (#614 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin D2). 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.