White Vinegar
White Vinegar appears in 1,512 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 Vinegar appears in 1,512 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.
- 1,512
- catalogued products
- #506
- usage rank of 247,206
- 427
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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 Vinegar - usage rank #506
- Usage rank
- #506
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,512 products listing it (mean slot 11.5). White 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.
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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: White Vinegar spans 427 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 100 Calorie Guacamole Snack Packs; 100% Whole Wheat Bagels; 365 everyday value, chicken & bbq sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
427 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1078 of 1479 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 Vinegar
Across the 1,512 products on this site that list White 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 2x more often with White Vinegar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of White Vinegar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 175 | 11.6% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 39 | 2.6% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 34 | 2.2% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 21 | 1.4% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 16 | 1.1% | 4.8% |
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 Vinegar
Products Containing White Vinegar
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,512 indexed products containing White Vinegar:
White Vinegar vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for White Vinegar: 1,512 listings averaging 97.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cream Of Tartar; Pasteurized Cow's Milk; Pineapple Juice Concentrate.
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 Vinegar page
Use the 1,512-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list White Vinegar to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare White Vinegar with a peer such as “Cream Of Tartar” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
White Vinegar — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on White Vinegar? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to White Vinegar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#506 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with White Vinegar? ▼
White Vinegar ranks in the top decile by product count (#506 of 247,206), appearing in 1,512 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is White Vinegar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Vinegar appears in 1,512 products (#506 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White 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.