Degerminated White Corn Meal

Degerminated White Corn Meal appears in 72 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

Degerminated White Corn Meal appears in 72 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.

72
catalogued products
#3,897
usage rank of 247,206
11
named brands represented
63%
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: 35 of 72 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Buns; Celeste, thick crust pizza, four cheese; Celeste, thick crust pizza, pepperoni to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Degerminated White Corn Meal itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

35 of 72 linked records have some flagged component

All 72 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.

Degerminated White Corn Meal: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,897 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,897
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 72 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
63%
Averaged label depth puts Degerminated White Corn Meal in the lower half of the list (63% of list length, mean slot 32.9). 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Degerminated White Corn Meal

Across the 72 products on this site that list Degerminated White Corn Meal, 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 20.3x more often with Degerminated White Corn Meal than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +46.2ppSodium Nitrite+46.2ppBHT: +44.7ppBHT+44.7ppBHA: +42.4ppBHA+42.4ppPropyl Gallate: +12.3ppPropyl Gallate+12.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Degerminated White Corn Meal products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
46.2pp
BHT
44.7pp
BHA
42.4pp
Propyl Gallate
12.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Degerminated White Corn Meal products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 35 48.6% 2.4%
BHT 33 45.8% 1.1%
BHA 31 43.1% 0.7%
Propyl Gallate 9 12.5% 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 Degerminated White Corn Meal

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Degerminated White Corn Meal
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Degerminated White Corn Meal beside “Added To Retain Moisture”

Degerminated White Corn Meal sits among other busy catalog rows (72 products, mean score 77.2/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added To Retain Moisture; Almond Oil; Natural Banana Flavoring. 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

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Next steps from the Degerminated White Corn Meal page

72 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Degerminated White Corn Meal are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Degerminated White Corn Meal and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Place Degerminated White Corn Meal next to “Almond Oil” (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.

Questions readers ask about Degerminated White Corn Meal

Does Degerminated White Corn Meal 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 Degerminated White Corn Meal. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Degerminated White Corn Meal?

Degerminated White Corn Meal ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,897 of 247,206), appearing in 72 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Degerminated White Corn Meal so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Degerminated White Corn Meal appears in 72 products (#3,897 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Degerminated White Corn Meal). 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.