White Balsamic Vinegar

White Balsamic Vinegar appears in 189 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

White Balsamic Vinegar appears in 189 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.

189
catalogued products
#2,017
usage rank of 247,206
73
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.

High-volume listing for White Balsamic Vinegar - usage rank #2,017

Usage rank
#2,017
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 189 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
36%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 189 products listing it (mean slot 11.0). White Balsamic 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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 15.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: White Balsamic Vinegar spans 73 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Ahold, simply enjoy, roasted red onion & gruyere gourmet dip; Alessi, premium caper berries in white balsamic vinegar; Alessi, premium white balsamic reduction when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

73 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 144 of 179 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 White Balsamic Vinegar

Across the 189 products on this site that list White Balsamic Vinegar, 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 1.7x more often with White Balsamic Vinegar than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +3.8ppCaramel Coloring+3.8ppCarrageenan: -0.8ppCarrageenan-0.8ppSodium Nitrite: +0.2ppSodium Nitrite+0.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, White Balsamic Vinegar products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
3.8pp
Carrageenan
-0.8pp
Sodium Nitrite
0.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of White Balsamic Vinegar products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 18 9.5% 5.7%
Carrageenan 7 3.7% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 5 2.6% 2.4%

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.

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 White Balsamic Vinegar

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing White Balsamic Vinegar
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural Almond Extract”)

White Balsamic Vinegar sits among other busy catalog rows (189 products, mean score 98.3/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural Almond Extract; Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating; Flaxseed Meal. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Next steps from the White Balsamic Vinegar page

189 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on White Balsamic Vinegar are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing White Balsamic Vinegar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Compare White Balsamic Vinegar with a peer such as “Natural Almond Extract” on 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. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

White Balsamic Vinegar — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on White Balsamic Vinegar?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to White Balsamic Vinegar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,017 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with White Balsamic Vinegar?

White Balsamic Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,017 of 247,206), appearing in 189 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is White Balsamic Vinegar so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Balsamic Vinegar appears in 189 products (#2,017 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Balsamic 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.