Bulgar Wheat

Bulgar Wheat appears in 92 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

Bulgar Wheat appears in 92 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.

92
catalogued products
#3,310
usage rank of 247,206
45
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.

Bulgar Wheat: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,310 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,310
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 41 others that also appear in exactly 92 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
45%
Averaged label depth puts Bulgar Wheat in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 13.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 17.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Bulgar Wheat spans 45 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 19th Hole Mix; Asian Blend Trail; Beer Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 93.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

45 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 66 of 85 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 Bulgar Wheat

Across the 92 products on this site that list Bulgar Wheat, 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.

Additive Shared products Share of Bulgar Wheat products Share of all products
Yellow 5 6 6.5% 4.8%
Caramel Coloring 6 6.5% 5.7%

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 Bulgar Wheat

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 60708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Bulgar Wheat
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.

Bulgar Wheat vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Bulgar Wheat: 92 products, mean screening score 93.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 100% Whole Grain Wheat Flour · Added To Maintain Color · With Alkali. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Next steps from the Bulgar Wheat page

92 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Bulgar Wheat are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Bulgar Wheat before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Place Bulgar Wheat next to “Added To Maintain Color” (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. 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 Bulgar Wheat

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Bulgar Wheat?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bulgar Wheat, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,310 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Bulgar Wheat?

Bulgar Wheat ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,310 of 247,206), appearing in 92 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Bulgar Wheat so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bulgar Wheat appears in 92 products (#3,310 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bulgar Wheat). 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.