Bran
Bran appears in 45 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
Bran appears in 45 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.
- 45
- catalogued products
- #5,333
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
Bran sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,333 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,333
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 45 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Averaged label depth puts Bran in the upper half of the list (50% of list length, mean slot 10.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bran spans 22 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Whole Wheat Bread; Alphameta; Avocado Seed & Grain Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
22 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 30 of 41 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Bran
Across the 45 products on this site that list Bran, 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 1.9x more often with Bran than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bran products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 11.1% | 5.7% |
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 Bran
Products Containing Bran
16 busy labels from the 45 indexed products that list Bran:
High-volume peers for Bran
Top-decile company for Bran: 45 listings averaging 97.9/100.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Bran evidence
Use the 45-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Bran and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Bran
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Bran? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bran, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,333 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bran? ▼
Bran ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,333 of 247,206), appearing in 45 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bran so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bran appears in 45 products (#5,333 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bran). 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.