Corn Cereal
Corn Cereal appears in 180 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
Corn Cereal appears in 180 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.
- 180
- catalogued products
- #2,080
- usage rank of 247,206
- 78
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
67.2% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Corn Cereal as the trigger. Open records such as 3pk Jumbo Lemon Fritters; Ahold, pumpkin bread; American Pride, Wild Alaska Pollock Flaky Fillets With A Lemon Pepper Crust, Lemon Pepper and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 74.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 47% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
67.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 179 of 180 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Corn Cereal sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,080 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,080
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 180 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 180 products listing it (mean slot 19.5). Corn Cereal 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.
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 else is usually in the same product as Corn Cereal
Across the 180 products on this site that list Corn Cereal, 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 5.8x more often with Corn Cereal than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Corn Cereal products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 59 | 32.8% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 57 | 31.7% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 26 | 14.4% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 25 | 13.9% | 4.2% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 24 | 13.3% | 1.4% |
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 Corn Cereal
Products Containing Corn Cereal
High-volume slice (16 of 180) for products naming Corn Cereal:
Corn Cereal vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Corn Cereal: 180 products, mean screening score 74.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Butter Powder”, “From Sunflower Oil”, “Gluten Free Flour Blend”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Corn Cereal page
Start from Corn Cereal's 180 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Corn Cereal before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Corn Cereal with a peer such as “Butter Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Corn Cereal
How should I read safety signals when Corn Cereal sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
67.2% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Corn Cereal is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Corn Cereal? ▼
Corn Cereal ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,080 of 247,206), appearing in 180 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Corn Cereal so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Corn Cereal appears in 180 products (#2,080 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Corn Cereal). 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.