Fermented Wheat Flour

Fermented Wheat Flour appears in 276 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 Wheat Flour appears in 276 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.

276
catalogued products
#1,561
usage rank of 247,206
95
named brands represented
56%
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: 66 of 276 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, sourdough bread; 4 BLUEBERRY HOT CROSS BUNS WITH A HINT OF VANILLA; 7-Eleven 3-Cheese Pizza to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Fermented Wheat Flour itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

66 of 276 linked records have some flagged component

All 269 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.

High-volume listing for Fermented Wheat Flour - usage rank #1,561

Usage rank
#1,561
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 276 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
56%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 276 products listing it (mean slot 18.3). Fermented Wheat Flour usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 Wheat Flour

Across the 276 products on this site that list Fermented 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 5.8x more often with Fermented Wheat Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +11.4ppSodium Nitrite+11.4ppBHT: +8ppBHT+8ppCaramel Coloring: +3.4ppCaramel Coloring+3.4ppBHA: +6.9ppBHA+6.9ppCarrageenan: +0.6ppCarrageenan+0.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Fermented 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.

Sodium Nitrite
11.4pp
BHT
8pp
Caramel Coloring
3.4pp
BHA
6.9pp
Carrageenan
0.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Fermented Wheat Flour products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 38 13.8% 2.4%
BHT 25 9.1% 1.1%
Caramel Coloring 25 9.1% 5.7%
BHA 21 7.6% 0.7%
Carrageenan 14 5.1% 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 Fermented 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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Fermented 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.

Fermented Wheat Flour vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Fermented Wheat Flour: 276 listings averaging 93.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Enzyme Modified Cheese · Fruit And Vegetable Juice Concentrate · Glucono Delta-lactone.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Fermented Wheat Flour evidence

Start from Fermented Wheat Flour's 276 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Fermented Wheat Flour before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

Fermented Wheat Flour — common follow-ups

Does Fermented Wheat 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 Wheat 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 Wheat Flour?

Fermented Wheat Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,561 of 247,206), appearing in 276 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 Wheat Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Fermented Wheat Flour appears in 276 products (#1,561 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Fermented 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.