Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour appears in 2,829 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

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour appears in 2,829 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.

2,829
catalogued products
#320
usage rank of 247,206
489
named brands represented
12%
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

51.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour as the trigger. Open records such as 3pk Jumbo Lemon Fritters; 6\fajitaflourtortillas; 7" carrot cake and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 79.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 12% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

51.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 2619 of 2795 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.

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#320 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#320
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
12%
Mean relative depth 12% across 2,829 parsed labels, slot 6.5 on average. Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour

Across the 2,829 products on this site that list Enriched Bleached 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 14x more often with Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Polysorbate 60: +18.2ppPolysorbate 60+18.2ppCaramel Coloring: +13.1ppCaramel Coloring+13.1ppYellow 5: +12.8ppYellow 5+12.8ppRed 40: +11.4ppRed 40+11.4ppYellow 6: +10.1ppYellow 6+10.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Polysorbate 60
18.2pp
Caramel Coloring
13.1pp
Yellow 5
12.8pp
Red 40
11.4pp
Yellow 6
10.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour products Share of all products
Polysorbate 60 555 19.6% 1.4%
Caramel Coloring 532 18.8% 5.7%
Yellow 5 498 17.6% 4.8%
Red 40 475 16.8% 5.4%
Yellow 6 382 13.5% 3.4%

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 Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour

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 050100150 051015 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour
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.

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour sits among other busy catalog rows (2,829 products, mean score 79.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Gellan Gum; Potassium Benzoate; Chicken. 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

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour record

Use the 2,829-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Place Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour next to “Potassium Benzoate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour

How should I read safety signals when Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour sits in heavily flagged products?

51.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour?

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#320 of 247,206), appearing in 2,829 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour appears in 2,829 products (#320 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Enriched Bleached 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.