Crushed Wheat
Crushed Wheat appears in 83 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
Crushed Wheat appears in 83 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.
- 83
- catalogued products
- #3,577
- usage rank of 247,206
- 42
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
Crushed Wheat sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,577 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,577
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 30 others that also appear in exactly 83 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Averaged label depth puts Crushed Wheat in the upper half of the list (43% of list length, mean slot 12.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Crushed Wheat spans 42 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 100% Whole Wheat Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
42 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 70 of 81 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 Crushed Wheat
Across the 83 products on this site that list Crushed Wheat, 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. Azodicarbonamide shows up about 42x more often with Crushed Wheat than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Crushed Wheat products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azodicarbonamide | 7 | 8.4% | 0.2% |
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 Crushed Wheat
Products Containing Crushed Wheat
16 busy labels from the 83 indexed products that list Crushed Wheat:
Crushed Wheat vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Crushed Wheat: 83 products, mean screening score 97/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Artificial Colors Fd&c Red 3; Blue 1 & 2; Brominated Soybean Oil. 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.
Next steps from the Crushed Wheat page
Use the 83-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 Crushed Wheat to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Crushed Wheat — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Crushed Wheat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Crushed Wheat, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,577 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Crushed Wheat? ▼
Crushed Wheat ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,577 of 247,206), appearing in 83 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 Crushed Wheat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Crushed Wheat appears in 83 products (#3,577 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Crushed Wheat). 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.