Cooked Enriched Pasta

Cooked Enriched Pasta appears in 152 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

Cooked Enriched Pasta appears in 152 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.

152
catalogued products
#2,346
usage rank of 247,206
25
named brands represented
13%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 72 of 152 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Birds Eye Voila! Family Size Chicken Stir-Fry; Birds Eye Voila! Garlic Chicken Skillet Meal; Bob Evans macaroni cheese singles to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Cooked Enriched Pasta itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

72 of 152 linked records have some flagged component

All 150 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Cooked Enriched Pasta: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,346 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,346
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 152 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
13%
Averaged label depth puts Cooked Enriched Pasta near the top of the captured list (13% of list length, mean slot 7.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Cooked Enriched Pasta

Across the 152 products on this site that list Cooked Enriched Pasta, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 5.1x more often with Cooked Enriched Pasta than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +18.5ppCarrageenan+18.5ppCaramel Coloring: +17.3ppCaramel Coloring+17.3ppBHT: +4.2ppBHT+4.2ppSodium Nitrate: +4.4ppSodium Nitrate+4.4ppBHA: +3.9ppBHA+3.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cooked Enriched Pasta products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
18.5pp
Caramel Coloring
17.3pp
BHT
4.2pp
Sodium Nitrate
4.4pp
BHA
3.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cooked Enriched Pasta products Share of all products
Carrageenan 35 23% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 35 23% 5.7%
BHT 8 5.3% 1.1%
Sodium Nitrate 7 4.6% 0.2%
BHA 7 4.6% 0.7%

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 Cooked Enriched Pasta

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cooked Enriched Pasta
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.

Cooked Enriched Pasta vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Cooked Enriched Pasta sits among other busy catalog rows (152 products, mean score 94.2/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural Acids · Artichoke · Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Cooked Enriched Pasta record

Use the 152-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 Cooked Enriched Pasta 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
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Cooked Enriched Pasta — common follow-ups

Does Cooked Enriched Pasta carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Cooked Enriched Pasta. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Enriched Pasta?

Cooked Enriched Pasta ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,346 of 247,206), appearing in 152 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cooked Enriched Pasta so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Enriched Pasta appears in 152 products (#2,346 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Enriched Pasta). 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.