Arrowroot Starch
Arrowroot Starch carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 50 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Arrowroot Starch appears in 50 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 50
- catalogued products
- #4,971
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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 Starch sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,971 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,971
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 50 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Mean relative depth 45% across 50 parsed labels, slot 7.1 on average. Arrowroot Starch tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Arrowroot Starch spans 22 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with All-Purpose Baking Mix; All-purpose flour artisan blend; All-Purpose Flour Artisan Blend when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
22 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 35 of 49 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.
Function
STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Starch
Products Containing Arrowroot Starch
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 50 indexed products containing Arrowroot Starch:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “2% Dv”)
High-volume peers for Arrowroot Starch: 50 products, mean screening score 99.7/100. Nearest count peers include “2% Dv”, “5 %”, “Active Yogurt With L. Bulgaricus”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Arrowroot Starch page
50 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Arrowroot Starch are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Arrowroot Starch 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. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Arrowroot Starch
What do the source ratings say about Arrowroot Starch? ▼
Arrowroot Starch has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Listed. With only 6% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Arrowroot Starch? ▼
Arrowroot Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,971 of 247,206), appearing in 50 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Arrowroot Starch do in food? ▼
Arrowroot Starch is recorded as a stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Arrowroot 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.