Bread Crumb
Bread Crumb appears in 123 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 Crumb appears in 123 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.
- 123
- catalogued products
- #2,727
- usage rank of 247,206
- 52
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
53.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Bread Crumb as the trigger. Open records such as Alfredo Lasagna with Chicken; Bacon ranch, chicken poppers; Bbq meatloaf and mash and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 46% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 120 of 123 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 Bread Crumb - usage rank #2,727
- Usage rank
- #2,727
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 123 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 123 products listing it (mean slot 25.7). Bread Crumb usually falls in the upper half of the 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 Crumb
Across the 123 products on this site that list Bread Crumb, 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 4.6x more often with Bread Crumb than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bread Crumb products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 32 | 26% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 16 | 13% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 15 | 12.2% | 4.5% |
| BHT | 14 | 11.4% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 13 | 10.6% | 0.7% |
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 Bread Crumb
Products Containing Bread Crumb
High-volume slice (16 of 123) for products naming Bread Crumb:
Bread Crumb vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Bread Crumb: 123 products, mean screening score 89.6/100. Nearest count peers include “Clam Broth”, “Cracked Black Pepper”, “Enriched Durum Semolina”. 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 Crumb page
Use the 123-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 Bread Crumb to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Bread Crumb next to “Cracked Black Pepper” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Bread Crumb — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Bread Crumb sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Bread Crumb is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bread Crumb? ▼
Bread Crumb ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,727 of 247,206), appearing in 123 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bread Crumb so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bread Crumb appears in 123 products (#2,727 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bread Crumb). 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.