Bleached Flour
Bleached Flour appears in 219 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 Flour appears in 219 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.
- 219
- catalogued products
- #1,834
- usage rank of 247,206
- 71
- named brands represented
- 15%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 62 of 219 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 7-11 powdered sugar mini donuts; All Purpose Baking Mix; Angel food cake mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Bleached Flour itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
62 of 219 linked records have some flagged component
All 218 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.
Bleached Flour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,834 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,834
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 219 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 15%
- Mean relative depth 15% across 219 parsed labels, slot 8.0 on average. Bleached Flour tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 else is usually in the same product as Bleached Flour
Across the 219 products on this site that list Bleached 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 6.5x more often with Bleached Flour than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bleached Flour products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 20 | 9.1% | 1.4% |
| BHT | 18 | 8.2% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 16 | 7.3% | 4.5% |
| BHA | 13 | 5.9% | 0.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 12 | 5.5% | 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 Bleached Flour
Products Containing Bleached Flour
16 busy labels from the 219 indexed products that list Bleached Flour:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Anticaking”)
High-volume peers for Bleached Flour: 219 products, mean screening score 90.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Anticaking; Natural Garlic Flavor; Lowfat Yogurt. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Next steps from the Bleached Flour page
219 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bleached Flour are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Bleached Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Bleached Flour with a peer such as “Anticaking” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Bleached Flour — common follow-ups
Does Bleached Flour 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 Bleached Flour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bleached Flour? ▼
Bleached Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,834 of 247,206), appearing in 219 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bleached Flour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bleached Flour appears in 219 products (#1,834 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bleached 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.