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.

Caramel Coloring: +11.8ppCaramel Coloring+11.8ppSodium Nitrite: +7.9ppSodium Nitrite+7.9ppCarrageenan: +5.3ppCarrageenan+5.3ppBHT: +8.5ppBHT+8.5ppBHA: +7.9ppBHA+7.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Bread Crumbs products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
11.8pp
Sodium Nitrite
7.9pp
Carrageenan
5.3pp
BHT
8.5pp
BHA
7.9pp
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

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 5060708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Bread Crumbs
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.

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.

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.