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.

Polysorbate 60: +7.7ppPolysorbate 60+7.7ppBHT: +7.1ppBHT+7.1ppCarrageenan: +2.8ppCarrageenan+2.8ppBHA: +5.2ppBHA+5.2ppSodium Nitrite: +3.1ppSodium Nitrite+3.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Bleached Flour products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Polysorbate 60
7.7pp
BHT
7.1pp
Carrageenan
2.8pp
BHA
5.2pp
Sodium Nitrite
3.1pp
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

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 02468 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Bleached Flour
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.

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.