Arrowroot Powder

Arrowroot Powder appears in 114 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

Arrowroot Powder appears in 114 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.

114
catalogued products
#2,861
usage rank of 247,206
33
named brands represented
55%
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.

Arrowroot Powder sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,861 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,861
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 18 others that also appear in exactly 114 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
55%
Averaged label depth puts Arrowroot Powder in the lower half of the list (55% of list length, mean slot 10.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 2.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Arrowroot Powder spans 33 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Almond Biscotti Handmade Crunchy Cookies, Almond; Baby Powder; Banana Muffin & Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

33 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 59 of 107 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 Arrowroot Powder

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Arrowroot Powder
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.

Arrowroot Powder vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Arrowroot Powder sits among other busy catalog rows (114 products, mean score 99.9/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Baby Kale · Blue · Cake Base. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

What to do with this Arrowroot Powder record

Start from Arrowroot Powder's 114 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Arrowroot Powder before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Arrowroot Powder?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Arrowroot Powder, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,861 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Arrowroot Powder?

Arrowroot Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,861 of 247,206), appearing in 114 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Arrowroot Powder so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Arrowroot Powder appears in 114 products (#2,861 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Arrowroot Powder). 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.