Enriched Rice
Enriched Rice appears in 65 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 Rice appears in 65 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.
- 65
- catalogued products
- #4,179
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 8%
- 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.
Enriched Rice: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,179 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,179
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 31 others that also appear in exactly 65 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 8%
- Averaged label depth puts Enriched Rice near the top of the captured list (8% of list length, mean slot 4.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Enriched Rice spans 22 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Authentic black beans & rice; Black Bean & Long Grain Rice With Seasonings; Cajun Style Dirty Rice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
22 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 60 of 65 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 Enriched Rice
Across the 65 products on this site that list Enriched Rice, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.6x more often with Enriched Rice than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Enriched Rice products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 9.2% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 7.7% | 4.5% |
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 Rice
Products Containing Enriched Rice
16 busy labels from the 65 indexed products that list Enriched Rice:
High-volume peers for Enriched Rice beside “Ancho Chili Powder”
Top-decile company for Enriched Rice: 65 listings averaging 98.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Ancho Chili Powder · Natural And Artificial Maple Flavor · Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat.
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.
Using the Enriched Rice evidence
Use the 65-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Enriched Rice and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Enriched Rice with a peer such as “Ancho Chili Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Enriched Rice — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Enriched Rice? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Enriched Rice, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,179 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Enriched Rice? ▼
Enriched Rice ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,179 of 247,206), appearing in 65 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Enriched Rice so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Enriched Rice appears in 65 products (#4,179 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Enriched Rice). 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.