Gourmet Popcorn
Gourmet Popcorn appears in 22 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
Gourmet Popcorn appears in 22 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.
- 22
- catalogued products
- #8,787
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 4%
- 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 Gourmet Popcorn - usage rank #8,787
- Usage rank
- #8,787
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 22 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 4%
- Averaged label depth puts Gourmet Popcorn near the top of the captured list (4% of list length, mean slot 1.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Gourmet Popcorn spans 6 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Fire Corn, Jalapeno Popcorn; Fire Corn, Jalapeno Popcorn, Jalapeno; Fire Corn, Popcorn, Real White Cheddar, Jalapeno when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
6 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 17 of 21 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.
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 Gourmet Popcorn
Products Containing Gourmet Popcorn
High-volume slice (16 of 22) for products naming Gourmet Popcorn:
Gourmet Popcorn vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Gourmet Popcorn: 22 products, mean screening score 99.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Gourmet Popcorn record
Use the 22-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Gourmet Popcorn to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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 Gourmet Popcorn
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Gourmet Popcorn? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Gourmet Popcorn, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,787 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gourmet Popcorn? ▼
Gourmet Popcorn ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,787 of 247,206), appearing in 22 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Gourmet Popcorn so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gourmet Popcorn appears in 22 products (#8,787 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gourmet Popcorn). 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.