Buckwheat
Buckwheat appears in 574 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
Buckwheat appears in 574 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.
- 574
- catalogued products
- #970
- usage rank of 248,027
- 161
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
Where Buckwheat sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #970
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 574 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 574 products listing it (mean slot 12.3). Buckwheat 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. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 1.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Buckwheat spans 161 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Mass Gainer Chocolate Fudge Brownie; 100% Mass Gainer Vanilla Milkshake; 100% Whole Grain Original English Muffins when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 448 of 550 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 Buckwheat
Across the 574 products on this site that list Buckwheat, 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 10.5x more often with Buckwheat than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Buckwheat products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 12 | 2.1% | 0.2% |
| Monk fruit extract | 8 | 1.4% | 0.5% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 1% | 4.5% |
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, 2026-08-02.
Products Containing Buckwheat
A sample of 16 of the 574 indexed products containing Buckwheat, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Buckwheat safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Buckwheat, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Buckwheat? ▼
Buckwheat is found in 574 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Buckwheat do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Buckwheat. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
