Dried Banana Flakes
Dried Banana Flakes appears in 58 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
Dried Banana Flakes appears in 58 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.
- 58
- catalogued products
- #4,499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 23
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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.
Dried Banana Flakes: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,499 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 53 others that also appear in exactly 58 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Averaged label depth puts Dried Banana Flakes in the upper half of the list (44% of list length, mean slot 11.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dried Banana Flakes spans 23 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 365 everyday value, seedona sunset fruit & seed mix; Baby cereal probiotic rice banana apple baby cereal; Banana Bread Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 90.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
23 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 49 of 58 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Dried Banana Flakes
Across the 58 products on this site that list Dried Banana Flakes, 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. Red 40 shows up about 2.2x more often with Dried Banana Flakes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Dried Banana Flakes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 7 | 12.1% | 5.4% |
| Blue 2 | 5 | 8.6% | 0.9% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 8.6% | 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 Dried Banana Flakes
Products Containing Dried Banana Flakes
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 58 indexed products containing Dried Banana Flakes:
Dried Banana Flakes vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Dried Banana Flakes sits among other busy catalog rows (58 products, mean score 90/100). Nearest count peers include “Bean Sprouts”, “Bicarbonate”, “Bilberry”. 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.
Using the Dried Banana Flakes evidence
Use the 58-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Dried Banana Flakes and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Dried Banana Flakes with a peer such as “Bean Sprouts” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Dried Banana Flakes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dried Banana Flakes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,499 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dried Banana Flakes? ▼
Dried Banana Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,499 of 247,206), appearing in 58 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dried Banana Flakes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dried Banana Flakes appears in 58 products (#4,499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dried Banana Flakes). 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.