Gluten Free
Gluten Free appears in 120 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 Free appears in 120 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.
- 120
- catalogued products
- #2,769
- usage rank of 247,206
- 69
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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.
Gluten Free sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,769 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,769
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 120 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Averaged label depth puts Gluten Free in the lower half of the list (67% of list length, mean slot 12.3). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Gluten Free spans 69 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with A Medley Of Gourmet; All-purpose sauce; Ascorbic Acid 100% Pure Vitamin C when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
69 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 67 of 103 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 Free
Across the 120 products on this site that list Gluten Free, 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 Free products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 5.8% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 4.2% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 4.2% | 5.7% |
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 Free
Products Containing Gluten Free
High-volume slice (16 of 120) for products naming Gluten Free:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Arrowroot Flour”)
Top-decile company for Gluten Free: 120 listings averaging 94.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Arrowroot Flour · Chocolatey Coating · Cooking Wine.
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.
Next steps from the Gluten Free page
120 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Gluten Free are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Gluten Free before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Gluten Free next to “Chocolatey Coating” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Gluten Free
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Gluten Free? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Gluten Free, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,769 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gluten Free? ▼
Gluten Free ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,769 of 247,206), appearing in 120 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Gluten Free so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gluten Free appears in 120 products (#2,769 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gluten Free). 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.