Fermented Rye Flour

Fermented Rye Flour appears in 105 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

Fermented Rye Flour appears in 105 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.

105
catalogued products
#3,033
usage rank of 247,206
42
named brands represented
50%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 24 of 105 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% whole wheat; 22 Grains & Seeds Organic Bread; 22 grains & seeds small slice to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Fermented Rye Flour itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

24 of 105 linked records have some flagged component

All 101 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.

Fermented Rye Flour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,033 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,033
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 18 others that also appear in exactly 105 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
50%
Mean relative depth 50% across 105 parsed labels, slot 17.8 on average. Fermented Rye Flour tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

What else is usually in the same product as Fermented Rye Flour

Across the 105 products on this site that list Fermented Rye 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.8x more often with Fermented Rye Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +4.8ppCaramel Coloring+4.8ppSodium Nitrite: +7.1ppSodium Nitrite+7.1ppBHA: +6ppBHA+6ppBHT: +5.6ppBHT+5.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Fermented Rye 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.

Caramel Coloring
4.8pp
Sodium Nitrite
7.1pp
BHA
6pp
BHT
5.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Fermented Rye Flour products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 11 10.5% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 10 9.5% 2.4%
BHA 7 6.7% 0.7%
BHT 7 6.7% 1.1%

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 Fermented Rye 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 406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Fermented Rye 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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Active Yogurt Cultures”)

Top-decile company for Fermented Rye Flour: 105 listings averaging 95.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Active Yogurt Cultures; Alpha Tocopherol; As Cholecalciferol.

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 Fermented Rye Flour record

Use the 105-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Fermented Rye Flour before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Place Fermented Rye Flour next to “Alpha Tocopherol” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Fermented Rye Flour

Does Fermented Rye Flour 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 Fermented Rye Flour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Fermented Rye Flour?

Fermented Rye Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,033 of 247,206), appearing in 105 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 Fermented Rye Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fermented Rye Flour appears in 105 products (#3,033 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fermented Rye 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.