Bleached Enriched Flour

Bleached Enriched Flour appears in 787 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

Bleached Enriched Flour appears in 787 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.

787
catalogued products
#770
usage rank of 248,027
188
named brands represented
12%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

53.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Bleached Enriched Flour as the trigger. Open records such as 1/4 Sheet White Cake With Colored Icing; 10” Chocolate Cake Filled with Chocolate Mousse; 12 Hotdog Rolls and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 79.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 12% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 759 of 782 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Where Bleached Enriched Flour sits among catalogued ingredients

Usage rank
#770
of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
12%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 787 products listing it (mean slot 5.9). Bleached Enriched Flour usually falls near the top of the captured 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. 248,027 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 Bleached Enriched Flour

Across the 787 products on this site that list Bleached Enriched 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 15.8x more often with Bleached Enriched Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Bleached Enriched Flour products Share of all products
Polysorbate 60 174 22.1% 1.4%
Red 40 137 17.4% 5.4%
Yellow 5 129 16.4% 4.8%
Caramel Coloring 129 16.4% 5.7%
Yellow 6 95 12.1% 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, 2026-08-02.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Bleached Enriched Flour safe to eat?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bleached Enriched Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.

What products contain Bleached Enriched Flour?

Bleached Enriched Flour is found in 787 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.

What does Bleached Enriched Flour do in food?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Bleached Enriched Flour. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.

Citation notes Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.

Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.

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