Cassava Flour

Cassava Flour appears in 463 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

Cassava Flour appears in 463 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.

463
catalogued products
#1,085
usage rank of 247,206
130
named brands represented
25%
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.

Cassava Flour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,085 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,085
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 463 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
25%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 463 products listing it (mean slot 5.6). Cassava Flour 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 2.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cassava Flour spans 130 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Grain-Free Bagels - Cinnamon-Raisin; Almond cracker; Almond flour crackers when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

130 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 295 of 420 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 Cassava Flour

Across the 463 products on this site that list Cassava Flour, 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 Cassava Flour products Share of all products
Carrageenan 6 1.3% 4.5%
Monk fruit extract 5 1.1% 0.5%

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 Cassava Flour

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cassava Flour
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.

Cassava Flour vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Cassava Flour: 463 products, mean screening score 99.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Fresh Cucumbers; Toasted Sesame Oil; Used To Protect Quality. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Cassava Flour record

Start from Cassava Flour's 463 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Cassava Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Place Cassava Flour next to “Toasted Sesame Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Cassava Flour

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cassava Flour?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cassava Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,085 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cassava Flour?

Cassava Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,085 of 247,206), appearing in 463 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cassava Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cassava Flour appears in 463 products (#1,085 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cassava Flour). 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.