Cassava Starch
Cassava Starch appears in 150 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 Starch appears in 150 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.
- 150
- catalogued products
- #2,319
- usage rank of 247,206
- 43
- named brands represented
- 40%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Cassava Starch - usage rank #2,319
- Usage rank
- #2,319
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 154 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 154 products listing it (mean slot 7.9). Cassava Starch 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.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cassava Starch spans 43 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with All-Purpose Baking Mix; Authentic Chips; Autumn, Striped Spritz Cookies when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
43 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 100 of 137 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 Starch
Across the 150 products on this site that list Cassava Starch, 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 Starch products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 9 | 6% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 8 | 5.3% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 7 | 4.7% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 6 | 4% | 4.2% |
| Red 3 | 5 | 3.3% | 1.1% |
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 Starch
Products Containing Cassava Starch
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 150 indexed products containing Cassava Starch:
Cassava Starch vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Cassava Starch: 150 listings averaging 94.1/100. Nearest count peers include “1 Grade Mustard Seed”, “Blueberry Juice”, “Chromium Picolinate”.
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.
Using the Cassava Starch evidence
Use the 150-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cassava Starch to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Cassava Starch — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cassava Starch? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cassava Starch, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,319 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cassava Starch? ▼
Cassava Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,319 of 247,206), appearing in 150 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cassava Starch so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cassava Starch appears in 150 products (#2,319 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cassava Starch). 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.