Corn Starch
Corn Starch appears in 42,123 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 Starch appears in 42,123 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.
- 42,123
- catalogued products
- #13
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5,475
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 18426 of 42123 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0% Nonfat Greek Yogurt With Fruit; 1 donut; 1 lb. Hot dog to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Corn Starch itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
18426 of 42,123 linked records have some flagged component
All 41779 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.
Corn Starch: top-decile catalog footprint (#13 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #13
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 45,705 parsed labels, slot 16.0 on average. Corn Starch tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Corn Starch
Across the 42,123 products on this site that list Corn 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.3x more often with Corn Starch than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Corn Starch products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5,616 | 13.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 5,417 | 12.9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 4,838 | 11.5% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 4,394 | 10.4% | 4.2% |
| Carrageenan | 4,348 | 10.3% | 4.5% |
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 Starch
Products Containing Corn Starch
High-volume slice (16 of 42,123) for products naming Corn Starch:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Garlic”)
High-volume peers for Corn Starch: 42,123 products, mean screening score 83.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Garlic; Soybean Oil; Dextrose. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Corn Starch evidence
Start from Corn Starch's 42,123 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Corn Starch and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Corn Starch with a peer such as “Garlic” 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Corn Starch — common follow-ups
Does Corn Starch 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 Starch. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Corn Starch? ▼
Corn Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#13 of 247,206), appearing in 42,123 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Corn Starch so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Corn Starch appears in 42,123 products (#13 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Corn 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.