Defatted Wheat Germ
Defatted Wheat Germ appears in 154 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
Defatted Wheat Germ appears in 154 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.
- 154
- catalogued products
- #2,319
- usage rank of 247,206
- 48
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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: 51 of 154 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apple Cinnamon Crisp; Assorted Gourmet Cheese Crackers; Awake, Cereal, Strawberry to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Defatted Wheat Germ itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
51 of 154 linked records have some flagged component
All 154 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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 Defatted Wheat Germ - usage rank #2,319
- Usage rank
- #2,319
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 154 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Mean relative depth 42% across 154 parsed labels, slot 13.6 on average. Defatted Wheat Germ tends to sit in the upper 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 else is usually in the same product as Defatted Wheat Germ
Across the 154 products on this site that list Defatted Wheat Germ, 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 3.6x more often with Defatted Wheat Germ than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Defatted Wheat Germ products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 32 | 20.8% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 29 | 18.8% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 3.9% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 5 | 3.2% | 1.4% |
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 Defatted Wheat Germ
Products Containing Defatted Wheat Germ
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 154 indexed products containing Defatted Wheat Germ:
High-volume peers for Defatted Wheat Germ beside “Natural And Artificial Butter Flavor”
Defatted Wheat Germ sits among other busy catalog rows (154 products, mean score 94.5/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural And Artificial Butter Flavor · Canola Lecithin · Cassava Starch. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Defatted Wheat Germ evidence
Use the 154-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Defatted Wheat Germ before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Defatted Wheat Germ with a peer such as “Natural And Artificial Butter Flavor” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Defatted Wheat Germ 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 Defatted Wheat Germ. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Defatted Wheat Germ? ▼
Defatted Wheat Germ ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,319 of 247,206), appearing in 154 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Defatted Wheat Germ so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Defatted Wheat Germ appears in 154 products (#2,319 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Defatted Wheat Germ). 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.