Durum Wheat Flour
Durum Wheat Flour appears in 917 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
Durum Wheat Flour appears in 917 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.
- 917
- catalogued products
- #707
- usage rank of 247,206
- 195
- named brands represented
- 27%
- 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.
Durum Wheat Flour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#707 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #707
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 27%
- Averaged label depth puts Durum Wheat Flour in the upper half of the list (27% of list length, mean slot 8.7). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Durum Wheat Flour spans 195 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 3 Color 5 Cheese Tortelloni; 3 Color Cheese Tortellini; 3-Cheese Ravioli when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
195 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 625 of 886 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 Durum Wheat Flour
Across the 917 products on this site that list Durum Wheat Flour, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.8x more often with Durum Wheat Flour than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Durum Wheat Flour products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 76 | 8.3% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 43 | 4.7% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 21 | 2.3% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 19 | 2.1% | 1.1% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 18 | 2% | 2.1% |
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 Durum Wheat Flour
Products Containing Durum Wheat Flour
High-volume slice (16 of 917) for products naming Durum Wheat Flour:
Durum Wheat Flour vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Durum Wheat Flour: 917 listings averaging 97.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Butterfat”, “Semisweet Chocolate”, “Wine”.
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.
What to do with this Durum Wheat Flour record
Use the 917-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 Durum Wheat Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Durum Wheat Flour with a peer such as “Butterfat” 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. 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 Durum Wheat Flour? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Durum Wheat Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#707 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Durum Wheat Flour? ▼
Durum Wheat Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#707 of 247,206), appearing in 917 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 Durum Wheat Flour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Durum Wheat Flour appears in 917 products (#707 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Durum Wheat Flour). 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.