Banana Flour
Banana Flour appears in 20 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
Banana Flour appears in 20 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.
- 20
- catalogued products
- #9,371
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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.
Banana Flour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#9,371 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #9,371
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 20 products listing it (mean slot 9.1). Banana Flour usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Banana Flour spans 8 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Animal Cookies; Animal cookies; Banana Flour when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 17 of 19 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 Banana Flour
Products Containing Banana Flour
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 20 indexed products containing Banana Flour:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Banana Flour: 20 products, mean screening score 96.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Banana Flour record
Use the 20-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Banana Flour before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Banana Flour? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Banana Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#9,371 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Banana Flour? ▼
Banana Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Banana Flour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Banana Flour appears in 20 products (#9,371 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Banana Flour). 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.