Barley
Barley appears in 1,221 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
Barley appears in 1,221 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.
- 1,221
- catalogued products
- #589
- usage rank of 247,206
- 447
- 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.
Barley sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#589 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #589
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,224 products listing it (mean slot 13.0). Barley 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Barley spans 447 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 10 Grain Hot Cereal; 10-Grain Pancake Mix; 100% Natural Barley when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
447 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 935 of 1181 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 Barley
Across the 1,221 products on this site that list Barley, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.8x more often with Barley than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Barley products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 124 | 10.2% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 24 | 2% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 22 | 1.8% | 4.8% |
| Potassium Iodate | 20 | 1.6% | 0.2% |
| Red 40 | 20 | 1.6% | 5.4% |
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 Barley
Products Containing Barley
High-volume slice (16 of 1,221) for products naming Barley:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Microcrystalline Cellulose”)
High-volume peers for Barley: 1,221 products, mean screening score 97.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Microcrystalline Cellulose”, “Shellac”, “Cultured Cream”. 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 Barley page
Start from Barley's 1,221 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Barley and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Barley with a peer such as “Microcrystalline Cellulose” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Barley — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Barley? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Barley, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#589 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Barley? ▼
Barley ranks in the top decile by product count (#589 of 247,206), appearing in 1,221 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Barley so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Barley appears in 1,221 products (#589 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Barley). 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.