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
- #968
- usage rank of 247,206
- 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.
Buckwheat: top-decile catalog footprint (#968 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #968
- of 247,206 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
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.
161 named brands carry this ingredient
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, 2026-09-01.
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 Buckwheat
Products Containing Buckwheat
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 574 indexed products containing Buckwheat:
Buckwheat vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Buckwheat sits among other busy catalog rows (574 products, mean score 99.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Flavouring”, “Organic Ground Cinnamon”, “Pasteurized Cultured Milk And Cream”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Buckwheat page
Start from Buckwheat's 574 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Buckwheat before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Buckwheat next to “Organic Ground Cinnamon” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Buckwheat? ▼
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. The page reports catalog prevalence (#968 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Buckwheat? ▼
Buckwheat ranks in the top decile by product count (#968 of 247,206), appearing in 574 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Buckwheat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Buckwheat appears in 574 products (#968 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Buckwheat). 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.