Unmodified Corn Starch

Unmodified Corn Starch appears in 39 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

Unmodified Corn Starch appears in 39 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.

39
catalogued products
#5,893
usage rank of 247,206
15
named brands represented
64%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

82.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Unmodified Corn Starch as the trigger. Open records such as Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza; Chicken Fajita Recipe With Mozzarella & Cheddar Cheese, Onions, Green & Red Peppers Stone Baked Crust Pizza, Chicken Fajita Recipe; Chicken jambalaya and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 64% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

82.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 39 of 39 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

High-volume listing for Unmodified Corn Starch - usage rank #5,893

Usage rank
#5,893
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 113 others that also appear in exactly 39 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
64%
Mean relative depth 64% across 39 parsed labels, slot 34.8 on average. Unmodified Corn Starch tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Unmodified Corn Starch

Across the 39 products on this site that list Unmodified Corn Starch, 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 18.2x more often with Unmodified Corn Starch than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +77.6ppCarrageenan+77.6ppCaramel Coloring: +14.8ppCaramel Coloring+14.8ppSodium Nitrite: +13ppSodium Nitrite+13pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Unmodified Corn Starch products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Carrageenan
77.6pp
Caramel Coloring
14.8pp
Sodium Nitrite
13pp
Additive Shared products Share of Unmodified Corn Starch products Share of all products
Carrageenan 32 82.1% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 8 20.5% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 6 15.4% 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 Unmodified Corn Starch

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 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Unmodified Corn Starch
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.

High-volume peers for Unmodified Corn Starch

Top-decile company for Unmodified Corn Starch: 39 listings averaging 92.1/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Unmodified Corn Starch record

Use the 39-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Unmodified Corn Starch before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Unmodified Corn Starch

How should I read safety signals when Unmodified Corn Starch sits in heavily flagged products?

82.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Unmodified Corn Starch is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Unmodified Corn Starch?

Unmodified Corn Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,893 of 247,206), appearing in 39 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Unmodified Corn Starch so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Unmodified Corn Starch appears in 39 products (#5,893 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Unmodified Corn Starch). 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.