Cinnamon Bits
Cinnamon Bits appears in 38 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
Cinnamon Bits appears in 38 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.
- 38
- catalogued products
- #6,007
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 34%
- 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.
Cinnamon Bits sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,007 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,007
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 118 others that also appear in exactly 38 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 34%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 38 products listing it (mean slot 10.7). Cinnamon Bits 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 18.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cinnamon Bits spans 18 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Bagels Cinnamon Raisin Remix; Bars, Cinnamon Coffee Cake; Brookshire's, waffles, cinnamon when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
18 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 38 of 38 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 Cinnamon Bits
Across the 38 products on this site that list Cinnamon Bits, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.3x more often with Cinnamon Bits than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cinnamon Bits products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 13.2% | 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 Cinnamon Bits
Products Containing Cinnamon Bits
16 busy labels from the 38 indexed products that list Cinnamon Bits:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Cinnamon Bits sits among other busy catalog rows (38 products, mean score 96.1/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Cinnamon Bits page
38 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cinnamon Bits are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cinnamon Bits to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- 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 Cinnamon Bits? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cinnamon Bits, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,007 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cinnamon Bits? ▼
Cinnamon Bits ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,007 of 247,206), appearing in 38 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cinnamon Bits so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cinnamon Bits appears in 38 products (#6,007 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cinnamon Bits). 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.