Vitamin D
Vitamin D carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,431 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Vitamin D appears in 2,431 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.
- 2,431
- catalogued products
- #352
- usage rank of 247,206
- 515
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Vitamin D - usage rank #352
- Usage rank
- #352
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Mean relative depth 81% across 2,432 parsed labels, slot 23.4 on average. Vitamin D tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 970 of 2431 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% juice from concentrate; 100% Orange Juice; 100% Orange Juice to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Vitamin D itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
970 of 2,431 linked records have some flagged component
All 2340 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Vitamin D
Across the 2,431 products on this site that list Vitamin D, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Vitamin D than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vitamin D products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 297 | 12.2% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 289 | 11.9% | 5.4% |
| BHT | 261 | 10.7% | 1.1% |
| Blue 1 | 246 | 10.1% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 195 | 8% | 3.4% |
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
Products Containing Vitamin D
High-volume slice (16 of 2,431) for products naming Vitamin D:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Expeller Pressed Canola Oil”)
Top-decile company for Vitamin D: 2,431 listings averaging 86.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Expeller Pressed Canola Oil”, “Pasteurized Cream”, “Natural & Artificial Flavors”.
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.
Using the Vitamin D evidence
Use the 2,431-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 and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Vitamin D next to “Pasteurized Cream” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Vitamin D — common follow-ups
Does Vitamin D carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Vitamin D itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamin D? ▼
Vitamin D ranks in the top decile by product count (#352 of 247,206), appearing in 2,431 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Vitamin D do in food? ▼
Vitamin D is recorded as a nutrient supplement in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamin D). 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.