Ground And Formed
Ground And Formed appears in 20 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
Ground And Formed appears in 20 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.
- 20
- catalogued products
- #9,371
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 19%
- 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
90% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Ground And Formed as the trigger. Open records such as Cauliflower Crust Pizza; Croissant crust sandwiches; Ham & Cheese Filled Sandwiches and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 75.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 19% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
90% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 20 of 20 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 Ground And Formed - usage rank #9,371
- Usage rank
- #9,371
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 358 others that also appear in exactly 20 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 19%
- Mean relative depth 19% across 20 parsed labels, slot 14.1 on average. Ground And Formed tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.
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 Ground And Formed
Products Containing Ground And Formed
16 busy labels from the 20 indexed products that list Ground And Formed:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Ground And Formed: 20 listings averaging 75.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Ground And Formed page
Use the 20-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 Ground And Formed to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ground And Formed — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Ground And Formed sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
90% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Ground And Formed is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground And Formed? ▼
Ground And Formed ranks in the top decile by product count (#9,371 of 247,206), appearing in 20 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground And Formed so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground And Formed appears in 20 products (#9,371 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground And Formed). 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.