Barley Malt Flour

Barley Malt Flour appears in 151 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 Malt Flour appears in 151 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.

151
catalogued products
#2,353
usage rank of 247,206
52
named brands represented
68%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 35 of 151 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Natural Wheat Hot Dog Roll; Baked corn puffs snacks; Barbecue kettle potato chips to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Barley Malt Flour itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

35 of 151 linked records have some flagged component

All 149 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

High-volume listing for Barley Malt Flour - usage rank #2,353

Usage rank
#2,353
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 151 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
68%
Averaged label depth puts Barley Malt Flour in the lower half of the list (68% of list length, mean slot 15.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Barley Malt Flour

Across the 151 products on this site that list Barley Malt Flour, 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 1.7x more often with Barley Malt Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +4.2ppCaramel Coloring+4.2ppYellow 5: +3.8ppYellow 5+3.8ppYellow 6: -0.1ppYellow 6-0.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Barley Malt Flour products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
4.2pp
Yellow 5
3.8pp
Yellow 6
-0.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Barley Malt Flour products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 15 9.9% 5.7%
Yellow 5 13 8.6% 4.8%
Yellow 6 5 3.3% 3.4%

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 Malt Flour

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 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Barley Malt Flour
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.

High-volume peers for Barley Malt Flour beside “Anchovy Paste”

Top-decile company for Barley Malt Flour: 151 listings averaging 94.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Anchovy Paste”, “Cultured Pasteurized Milk And Cream”, “Grape Seed Extract”.

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 Barley Malt Flour evidence

Start from Barley Malt Flour's 151 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Barley Malt Flour before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Place Barley Malt Flour next to “Cultured Pasteurized Milk And Cream” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Barley Malt Flour

Does Barley Malt Flour carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Barley Malt Flour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Barley Malt Flour?

Barley Malt Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,353 of 247,206), appearing in 151 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Barley Malt Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Barley Malt Flour appears in 151 products (#2,353 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Barley Malt 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.