Bread Crumbs
Bread Crumbs appears in 1,786 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 Crumbs appears in 1,786 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.
- 1,786
- catalogued products
- #442
- usage rank of 247,206
- 379
- named brands represented
- 38%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 646 of 1786 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% all natural turkey meatballs in tomato sauce; 12 mini crabcakes; 3 cheese pizza to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Bread Crumbs itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
646 of 1,786 linked records have some flagged component
All 1766 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.
Bread Crumbs sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#442 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #442
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,786 products listing it (mean slot 16.7). Bread Crumbs 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 Crumbs
Across the 1,786 products on this site that list Bread Crumbs, 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 3.1x more often with Bread Crumbs than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bread Crumbs products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 313 | 17.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 184 | 10.3% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 175 | 9.8% | 4.5% |
| BHT | 171 | 9.6% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 153 | 8.6% | 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 Crumbs
Products Containing Bread Crumbs
High-volume slice (16 of 1,786) for products naming Bread Crumbs:
High-volume peers for Bread Crumbs beside “Sauce”
Top-decile company for Bread Crumbs: 1,786 listings averaging 92.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Sauce · Rosemary · Diced Tomatoes.
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 Bread Crumbs page
1,786 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bread Crumbs are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Bread Crumbs and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Bread Crumbs
Does Bread Crumbs 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 Crumbs. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bread Crumbs? ▼
Bread Crumbs ranks in the top decile by product count (#442 of 247,206), appearing in 1,786 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bread Crumbs so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bread Crumbs appears in 1,786 products (#442 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bread Crumbs). 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.