Whole Soybeans
Whole Soybeans appears in 297 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
Whole Soybeans appears in 297 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.
- 297
- catalogued products
- #1,497
- usage rank of 247,206
- 104
- named brands represented
- 29%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 89 of 297 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, organic light soymilk, original; 8 Grain Hot Cereal; 8G Protein Per Cup Soymilk to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 80–100 score range to Whole Soybeans itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
89 of 297 linked records have some flagged component
All 290 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 80–100 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.
Whole Soybeans: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,497 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,497
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 298 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 29%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 298 products listing it (mean slot 6.9). Whole Soybeans 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.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Whole Soybeans
Across the 297 products on this site that list Whole Soybeans, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 6.2x more often with Whole Soybeans than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Whole Soybeans products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 83 | 27.9% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 2% | 5.7% |
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 Whole Soybeans
Products Containing Whole Soybeans
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 297 indexed products containing Whole Soybeans:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Brown Rice Crisps”)
High-volume peers for Whole Soybeans: 297 products, mean screening score 98.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Brown Rice Crisps”, “High Oleic Soybean”, “Skim Milk Solids”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Whole Soybeans page
297 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Whole Soybeans are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Whole Soybeans to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Whole Soybeans — common follow-ups
Does Whole Soybeans 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 Whole Soybeans. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Soybeans? ▼
Whole Soybeans ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,497 of 247,206), appearing in 297 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 Whole Soybeans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Soybeans appears in 297 products (#1,497 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Soybeans). 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.