Corn Masa Flour

Corn Masa Flour appears in 394 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 Masa Flour appears in 394 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.

394
catalogued products
#1,213
usage rank of 247,206
112
named brands represented
16%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 82 of 394 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2 Alarm Chili Kit; Atomix Chili and Lime; Atomix Habanero and Lime to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Corn Masa Flour itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

82 of 394 linked records have some flagged component

All 379 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.

High-volume listing for Corn Masa Flour - usage rank #1,213

Usage rank
#1,213
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 394 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
16%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 394 products listing it (mean slot 8.4). Corn Masa Flour usually falls near the top of the captured 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 else is usually in the same product as Corn Masa Flour

Across the 394 products on this site that list Corn Masa 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. Red 40 shows up about 2x more often with Corn Masa Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +5.3ppRed 40+5.3ppBlue 1: +3.7ppBlue 1+3.7ppBlue 2: +4.2ppBlue 2+4.2ppYellow 6: +1.4ppYellow 6+1.4ppCaramel Coloring: -0.9ppCaramel Coloring-0.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Corn Masa Flour products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Red 40
5.3pp
Blue 1
3.7pp
Blue 2
4.2pp
Yellow 6
1.4pp
Caramel Coloring
-0.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Corn Masa Flour products Share of all products
Red 40 42 10.7% 5.4%
Blue 1 31 7.9% 4.2%
Blue 2 20 5.1% 0.9%
Yellow 6 19 4.8% 3.4%
Caramel Coloring 19 4.8% 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 Corn Masa 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 050100150 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Corn Masa 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.

Corn Masa Flour vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Corn Masa Flour sits among other busy catalog rows (394 products, mean score 91.3/100). Nearest count peers include “L-carnitine”, “Turkey Breast Meat”, “Unbleached Flour”. 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

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

Using the Corn Masa Flour evidence

Use the 394-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

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

Corn Masa Flour — common follow-ups

Does Corn Masa Flour 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 Corn Masa Flour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Corn Masa Flour?

Corn Masa Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,213 of 247,206), appearing in 394 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Corn Masa Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Corn Masa Flour appears in 394 products (#1,213 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Corn Masa 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.