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
- #769
- usage rank of 247,206
- 178
- 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.
53.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
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.
High-volume listing for Bleached Enriched Flour - usage rank #769
- Usage rank
- #769
- of 247,206 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%
- Averaged label depth puts Bleached Enriched Flour near the top of the captured list (12% of list length, mean slot 5.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 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, 2026-09-01.
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 Bleached Enriched Flour
Products Containing Bleached Enriched Flour
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 787 indexed products containing Bleached Enriched Flour:
High-volume peers for Bleached Enriched Flour beside “Red Cabbage”
Top-decile company for Bleached Enriched Flour: 787 listings averaging 79.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Red Cabbage”, “Amaranth”, “Organic Coconut Water”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Bleached Enriched Flour record
Use the 787-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Bleached Enriched Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Bleached Enriched Flour with a peer such as “Red Cabbage” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Bleached Enriched Flour
How should I read safety signals when Bleached Enriched Flour sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Bleached Enriched Flour is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bleached Enriched Flour? ▼
Bleached Enriched Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#769 of 247,206), appearing in 787 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bleached Enriched Flour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bleached Enriched Flour appears in 787 products (#769 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bleached Enriched 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.