Bioengineered Food Ingredients
Bioengineered Food Ingredients appears in 132 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 Ingredients appears in 132 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.
- 132
- catalogued products
- #2,578
- usage rank of 247,206
- 68
- named brands represented
- 99%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 52 of 132 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare almond m&m's; Apple fruit pie; Asst Candy Bar Minis to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Bioengineered Food Ingredients itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
52 of 132 linked records have some flagged component
All 126 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 Ingredients: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,578 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,578
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 132 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 99%
- Averaged label depth puts Bioengineered Food Ingredients near the end of the captured list (99% of list length, mean slot 31.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 else is usually in the same product as Bioengineered Food Ingredients
Across the 132 products on this site that list Bioengineered Food Ingredients, 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 Bioengineered Food Ingredients than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bioengineered Food Ingredients products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 9.8% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 12 | 9.1% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 11 | 8.3% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 10 | 7.6% | 5.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 6.8% | 2.4% |
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 Ingredients
Products Containing Bioengineered Food Ingredients
16 busy labels from the 132 indexed products that list Bioengineered Food Ingredients:
Bioengineered Food Ingredients vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Bioengineered Food Ingredients: 132 listings averaging 87.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Black Currant · Canola Oils · Chicken Skin.
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.
What to do with this Bioengineered Food Ingredients record
Start from Bioengineered Food Ingredients's 132 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Bioengineered Food Ingredients to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Bioengineered Food Ingredients 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 Ingredients. 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 Ingredients? ▼
Bioengineered Food Ingredients ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,578 of 247,206), appearing in 132 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bioengineered Food Ingredients so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bioengineered Food Ingredients appears in 132 products (#2,578 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bioengineered Food Ingredients). 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.