Air Popped Popcorn
Air Popped Popcorn appears in 37 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
Air Popped Popcorn appears in 37 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.
- 37
- catalogued products
- #6,126
- usage rank of 247,206
- 17
- named brands represented
- 16%
- 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.
Air Popped Popcorn: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,126 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,126
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 98 others that also appear in exactly 37 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 16%
- Averaged label depth puts Air Popped Popcorn near the top of the captured list (16% of list length, mean slot 3.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Air Popped Popcorn spans 17 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 7 select, butter toffee, vanilla; 7 select, macadamia nut caramel popcorn cluster, vanilla; 7 select, popcorn clusters with cashews and almonds, cranberry caramel when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
17 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 29 of 37 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 Air Popped Popcorn
Products Containing Air Popped Popcorn
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 37 indexed products containing Air Popped Popcorn:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Air Popped Popcorn: 37 products, mean screening score 95.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Air Popped Popcorn page
Start from Air Popped Popcorn's 37 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Air Popped Popcorn to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Air Popped Popcorn? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Air Popped Popcorn, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,126 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Air Popped Popcorn? ▼
Air Popped Popcorn ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,126 of 247,206), appearing in 37 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Air Popped Popcorn so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Air Popped Popcorn appears in 37 products (#6,126 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Air Popped Popcorn). 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.