Vitamina A
Vitamina A appears in 33 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
Vitamina A appears in 33 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.
- 33
- catalogued products
- #6,578
- usage rank of 247,206
- 19
- 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.
Vitamina A: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,578 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,578
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 168 others that also appear in exactly 33 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 72%
- Mean relative depth 72% across 33 parsed labels, slot 26.1 on average. Vitamina A tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Vitamina A spans 19 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Abejuelas de Miel; Alimento Líquido de Coco; Almendra con sabor vainilla when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
19 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 25 of 25 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.
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 Vitamina A
Products Containing Vitamina A
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 33 indexed products containing Vitamina A:
Vitamina A vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Vitamina A: 33 products, mean screening score 97.6/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Vitamina A evidence
Start from Vitamina A's 33 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Vitamina A and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Vitamina A? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Vitamina A, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,578 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vitamina A? ▼
Vitamina A ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,578 of 247,206), appearing in 33 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 Vitamina A so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vitamina A appears in 33 products (#6,578 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vitamina A). 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.