Cracked Rye
Cracked Rye appears in 163 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
Cracked Rye appears in 163 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.
- 163
- catalogued products
- #2,231
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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.
Cracked Rye: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,231 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,231
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 163 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Mean relative depth 48% across 163 parsed labels, slot 18.3 on average. Cracked Rye tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cracked Rye spans 64 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 14 Grain Bread; 21 Whole Grains And Seeds; 365 everyday value, croutons, cheese & garlic when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
64 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 134 of 159 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 Cracked Rye
Across the 163 products on this site that list Cracked Rye, 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 1.8x more often with Cracked Rye than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cracked Rye products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | 10.4% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 3.7% | 2.4% |
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 Cracked Rye
Products Containing Cracked Rye
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 163 indexed products containing Cracked Rye:
Cracked Rye vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Cracked Rye sits among other busy catalog rows (163 products, mean score 98.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Alfalfa · Carboxymethyl Cellulose · Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product. 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 Cracked Rye evidence
Use the 163-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 Cracked Rye to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Cracked Rye
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cracked Rye? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cracked Rye, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,231 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cracked Rye? ▼
Cracked Rye ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,231 of 247,206), appearing in 163 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cracked Rye so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cracked Rye appears in 163 products (#2,231 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cracked Rye). 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.