Food Starches
Food Starches appears in 58 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
Food Starches appears in 58 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.
- 58
- catalogued products
- #4,499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
51.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Food Starches as the trigger. Open records such as Ahimi Tomato California Roll, Ahimi Tomato California; Chicken Alfredo; Chicken Pot Pie and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 90.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 47% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
51.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 57 of 57 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.
High-volume listing for Food Starches - usage rank #4,499
- Usage rank
- #4,499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 53 others that also appear in exactly 58 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Mean relative depth 47% across 58 parsed labels, slot 25.7 on average. Food Starches 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 Food Starches
Across the 58 products on this site that list Food Starches, 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 4.8x more often with Food Starches than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Food Starches products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 27.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 10 | 17.2% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 9 | 15.5% | 1.3% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 8 | 13.8% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 8.6% | 5.4% |
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 Food Starches
Products Containing Food Starches
High-volume slice (16 of 58) for products naming Food Starches:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Dried Banana Flakes”)
Food Starches sits among other busy catalog rows (58 products, mean score 90.3/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Dried Banana Flakes; Bean Sprouts; Bicarbonate. 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.
Using the Food Starches evidence
Start from Food Starches's 58 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Food Starches before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Food Starches next to “Bean Sprouts” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Food Starches — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Food Starches sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
51.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Food Starches is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Food Starches? ▼
Food Starches ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,499 of 247,206), appearing in 58 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Food Starches so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Food Starches appears in 58 products (#4,499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Food Starches). 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.