Bean Thread Noodle
Bean Thread Noodle appears in 8 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
Bean Thread Noodle appears in 8 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.
- 8
- catalogued products
- #17,814
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
Bean Thread Noodle sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#17,814 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #17,814
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Averaged label depth puts Bean Thread Noodle in the lower half of the list (60% of list length, mean slot 21.9). 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bean Thread Noodle spans 1 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Chicken Spring Rolls; Avocado summer roll w/ sweet chili sauce; Grilled chicken summer roll, grilled chicken summer when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 8 of 8 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 8 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 Bean Thread Noodle
Products Containing Bean Thread Noodle
8 busy labels from the 8 indexed products that list Bean Thread Noodle:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Bean Thread Noodle: 8 products, mean screening score 98.1/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Bean Thread Noodle evidence
8 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bean Thread Noodle are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Bean Thread Noodle to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Bean Thread Noodle — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Bean Thread Noodle? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bean Thread Noodle, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#17,814 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bean Thread Noodle? ▼
Bean Thread Noodle ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bean Thread Noodle so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bean Thread Noodle appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bean Thread Noodle). 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.