Grains
Grains appears in 29 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
Grains appears in 29 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.
- 29
- catalogued products
- #7,222
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 38%
- 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.
Grains: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,222 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,222
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 199 others that also appear in exactly 29 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 38%
- Mean relative depth 38% across 29 parsed labels, slot 12.0 on average. Grains tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Grains spans 14 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Assorted Gourmet Cheese Crackers; Chicken Salad muntigrain sandwich; Entertainment Cracker Collection when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 12 of 24 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 Grains
Products Containing Grains
16 busy labels from the 29 indexed products that list Grains:
High-volume peers for Grains
High-volume peers for Grains: 29 products, mean screening score 96.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Grains evidence
Use the 29-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Grains and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Grains
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Grains? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Grains, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,222 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Grains? ▼
Grains ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Grains so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Grains appears in 29 products (#7,222 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Grains). 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.