Dextrose Modified Food Starch

Dextrose Modified Food Starch appears in 6 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

Dextrose Modified Food Starch appears in 6 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.

6
catalogued products
#21,732
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
41%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

66.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Dextrose Modified Food Starch as the trigger. Open records such as Breaded Chicken Breast Patties with Rib Meat; Chicken Breast; Ella's Oven, Strawberry Filled Cookies and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 80.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 41% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

66.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 6 of 6 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

High-volume listing for Dextrose Modified Food Starch - usage rank #21,732

Usage rank
#21,732
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
41%
Mean relative depth 41% across 6 parsed labels, slot 17.8 on average. Dextrose Modified Food Starch 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 do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 6 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 Dextrose Modified Food Starch

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 6 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 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dextrose Modified Food Starch Breaded Chicken Breast Patties with Rib MeatChicken BreastElla's Oven, Strawberry Filled CookiesPrice chopper, old fashioned soft cookies, strawberry filledSnack mix saltedWhole turkey with gravy packet
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 Dextrose Modified Food Starch

Dextrose Modified Food Starch sits among other busy catalog rows (6 products, mean score 80/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

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 Dextrose Modified Food Starch page

Use the 6-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Dextrose Modified Food Starch before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Dextrose Modified Food Starch — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Dextrose Modified Food Starch sits in heavily flagged products?

66.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Dextrose Modified Food Starch is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Dextrose Modified Food Starch?

Dextrose Modified Food Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Dextrose Modified Food Starch so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dextrose Modified Food Starch appears in 6 products (#21,732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dextrose Modified Food Starch). 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.