Bioengineered Food Ingredient

Bioengineered Food Ingredient appears in 103 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

Bioengineered Food Ingredient appears in 103 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.

103
catalogued products
#3,066
usage rank of 247,206
44
named brands represented
98%
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: 33 of 103 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12 ct mini bagels; Banana Pudding Wafer Cookie Bits; Ben's Original Ready Rice Whole Grain Brown to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Bioengineered Food Ingredient itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

33 of 103 linked records have some flagged component

All 97 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.

Bioengineered Food Ingredient: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,066 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,066
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 27 others that also appear in exactly 103 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
98%
Mean relative depth 98% across 103 parsed labels, slot 29.5 on average. Bioengineered Food Ingredient tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Bioengineered Food Ingredient

Across the 103 products on this site that list Bioengineered Food Ingredient, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.9x more often with Bioengineered Food Ingredient than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +4.2ppCarrageenan+4.2ppYellow 5: +3ppYellow 5+3ppCaramel Coloring: +2.1ppCaramel Coloring+2.1ppPolysorbate 60: +5.4ppPolysorbate 60+5.4ppRed 40: +0.4ppRed 40+0.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Bioengineered Food Ingredient products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Carrageenan
4.2pp
Yellow 5
3pp
Caramel Coloring
2.1pp
Polysorbate 60
5.4pp
Red 40
0.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Bioengineered Food Ingredient products Share of all products
Carrageenan 9 8.7% 4.5%
Yellow 5 8 7.8% 4.8%
Caramel Coloring 8 7.8% 5.7%
Polysorbate 60 7 6.8% 1.4%
Red 40 6 5.8% 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 Bioengineered Food Ingredient

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 050100150 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Bioengineered Food Ingredient
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 Bioengineered Food Ingredient beside “Acai Puree”

Bioengineered Food Ingredient sits among other busy catalog rows (103 products, mean score 90.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Acai Puree”, “Aloe Vera Juice”, “Bamboo Shoots”. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Bioengineered Food Ingredient record

Use the 103-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Bioengineered Food Ingredient before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.

Bioengineered Food Ingredient — common follow-ups

Does Bioengineered Food Ingredient 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 Bioengineered Food Ingredient. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Bioengineered Food Ingredient?

Bioengineered Food Ingredient ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,066 of 247,206), appearing in 103 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 Bioengineered Food Ingredient so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bioengineered Food Ingredient appears in 103 products (#3,066 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bioengineered Food Ingredient). 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.