Enriched Macaroni

Enriched Macaroni appears in 231 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 Macaroni appears in 231 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.

231
catalogued products
#1,779
usage rank of 247,206
82
named brands represented
3%
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: 74 of 231 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Beef Noodle Hamburger Dinner; Beef Vegetable Soup Cup; Broccoli Cheese Rice Mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Enriched Macaroni itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

74 of 231 linked records have some flagged component

All 226 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.

Enriched Macaroni: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,779 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,779
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 231 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
3%
Mean relative depth 3% across 231 parsed labels, slot 2.1 on average. Enriched Macaroni tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Enriched Macaroni

Across the 231 products on this site that list Enriched Macaroni, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 3.8x more often with Enriched Macaroni than in the catalogue at large.

Yellow 5: +13.4ppYellow 5+13.4ppYellow 6: +13.5ppYellow 6+13.5ppCaramel Coloring: +2.1ppCaramel Coloring+2.1ppTitanium Dioxide: +1.4ppTitanium Dioxide+1.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Enriched Macaroni products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Yellow 5
13.4pp
Yellow 6
13.5pp
Caramel Coloring
2.1pp
Titanium Dioxide
1.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Enriched Macaroni products Share of all products
Yellow 5 42 18.2% 4.8%
Yellow 6 39 16.9% 3.4%
Caramel Coloring 18 7.8% 5.7%
Titanium Dioxide 8 3.5% 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 Enriched Macaroni

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 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Enriched Macaroni
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 Enriched Macaroni beside “Organic Coconut Flavor”

Top-decile company for Enriched Macaroni: 231 listings averaging 86.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Organic Coconut Flavor”, “Garlic Salt”, “Or Less Of Sugar”.

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 Enriched Macaroni evidence

231 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Enriched Macaroni are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Enriched Macaroni to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Place Enriched Macaroni next to “Garlic Salt” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins

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

Enriched Macaroni — common follow-ups

Does Enriched Macaroni 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 Enriched Macaroni. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Enriched Macaroni?

Enriched Macaroni ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,779 of 247,206), appearing in 231 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Enriched Macaroni so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Enriched Macaroni appears in 231 products (#1,779 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Enriched Macaroni). 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.