Water Vinegar
Water Vinegar appears in 20 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
Water Vinegar appears in 20 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.
- 20
- catalogued products
- #9,371
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 36%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 9 of 20 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Autumn Grain Salad w/ Champagne Vinaigrette; Barbecue Sauce with Pulled Pork; Bourbon chicken with vegetables and rice meal to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Water Vinegar itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
9 of 20 linked records have some flagged component
All 20 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
High-volume listing for Water Vinegar - usage rank #9,371
- Usage rank
- #9,371
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 20 products listing it (mean slot 10.6). Water Vinegar usually falls in the upper half of the 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.
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 Water Vinegar
Products Containing Water Vinegar
High-volume slice (16 of 20) for products naming Water Vinegar:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Water Vinegar: 20 listings averaging 92.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Water Vinegar page
20 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Water Vinegar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Water Vinegar and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Water Vinegar — common follow-ups
Does Water Vinegar carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Water Vinegar. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Water Vinegar? ▼
Water Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Water Vinegar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Water Vinegar appears in 20 products (#9,371 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Water Vinegar). 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.