Gluten
Gluten appears in 706 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
Gluten appears in 706 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.
- 706
- catalogued products
- #835
- usage rank of 247,206
- 325
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Gluten - usage rank #835
- Usage rank
- #835
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Mean relative depth 46% across 706 parsed labels, slot 11.3 on average. Gluten tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Gluten spans 325 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Adin, Coated Sweet Wafer; Advanced Amino Formula; Almond Croissants when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
325 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 593 of 682 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 Gluten
Across the 706 products on this site that list Gluten, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Gluten products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 29 | 4.1% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 23 | 3.3% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 23 | 3.3% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 13 | 1.8% | 4.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 12 | 1.7% | 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 Gluten
Products Containing Gluten
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 706 indexed products containing Gluten:
High-volume peers for Gluten beside “Potassium Bicarbonate”
Top-decile company for Gluten: 706 listings averaging 96.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Potassium Bicarbonate · Ferrous Fumarate · Azodicarbonamide.
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.
Next steps from the Gluten page
Start from Gluten's 706 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Gluten and read how the term sits on real packages. 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Gluten? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Gluten, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#835 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gluten? ▼
Gluten ranks in the top decile by product count (#835 of 247,206), appearing in 706 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 Gluten so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gluten appears in 706 products (#835 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gluten). 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.