Bread
Bread appears in 268 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
Bread appears in 268 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.
- 268
- catalogued products
- #1,598
- usage rank of 247,206
- 90
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 105 of 268 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 4 cheese garlic bread; A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese; Amazonas rainforest product, salvatorian red beans to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Bread itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Sandwiches supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
105 of 268 linked records have some flagged component
All 264 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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.
High-volume listing for Bread - usage rank #1,598
- Usage rank
- #1,598
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 268 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 12%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 268 products listing it (mean slot 6.0). Bread 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. 247,206 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 Bread
Across the 268 products on this site that list Bread, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 6.5x more often with Bread than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bread products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 42 | 15.7% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 39 | 14.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 39 | 14.6% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 20 | 7.5% | 1.1% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 19 | 7.1% | 1.3% |
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 Bread
Products Containing Bread
High-volume slice (16 of 268) for products naming Bread:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Anticake”)
High-volume peers for Bread: 268 products, mean screening score 92.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Anticake · B12 · Cooked Rice. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Bread page
268 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bread are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Bread before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Bread — common follow-ups
Does Bread 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 Bread. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bread? ▼
Bread ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,598 of 247,206), appearing in 268 indexed products led by Sandwiches. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bread so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bread appears in 268 products (#1,598 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bread). 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.