Cultured Wheat
Cultured Wheat appears in 286 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
Cultured Wheat appears in 286 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.
- 286
- catalogued products
- #1,527
- usage rank of 247,206
- 77
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Cultured Wheat - usage rank #1,527
- Usage rank
- #1,527
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 286 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Mean relative depth 68% across 286 parsed labels, slot 17.3 on average. Cultured Wheat tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cultured Wheat spans 77 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 12" White Flour Tortilla when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
77 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 250 of 281 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 Cultured Wheat
Across the 286 products on this site that list Cultured 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 5.3x more often with Cultured Wheat than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cultured Wheat products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 36 | 12.6% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 12 | 4.2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 11 | 3.8% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 10 | 3.5% | 5.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 6 | 2.1% | 1.8% |
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 Cultured Wheat
Products Containing Cultured Wheat
16 busy labels from the 286 indexed products that list Cultured Wheat:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cod”)
High-volume peers for Cultured Wheat: 286 products, mean screening score 95.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Cod”, “Sodium Aluminium Phosphate”, “Virgin Coconut 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 Cultured Wheat page
Start from Cultured Wheat's 286 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Cultured Wheat before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Cultured Wheat next to “Sodium Aluminium Phosphate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cultured Wheat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cultured Wheat, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,527 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cultured Wheat? ▼
Cultured Wheat ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,527 of 247,206), appearing in 286 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 Cultured Wheat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cultured Wheat appears in 286 products (#1,527 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cultured 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.