Ground Corn
Ground Corn appears in 159 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 Corn appears in 159 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.
- 159
- catalogued products
- #2,269
- usage rank of 247,206
- 54
- named brands represented
- 14%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 37 of 159 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12 Grain Bread; Abobo chicken enchiladas; Beef Enchilada Dinner to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ground Corn itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
37 of 159 linked records have some flagged component
All 148 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Ground Corn sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,269 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,269
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 10 others that also appear in exactly 159 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 14%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 159 products listing it (mean slot 6.1). Ground Corn usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Ground Corn
Across the 159 products on this site that list Ground Corn, 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 Ground Corn products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | 8.2% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 12 | 7.5% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 11 | 6.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 9 | 5.7% | 5.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 4.4% | 2.4% |
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 Ground Corn
Products Containing Ground Corn
16 busy labels from the 159 indexed products that list Ground Corn:
Ground Corn vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Ground Corn: 159 listings averaging 92.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Carnauba Leaf Wax”, “Organic Currants”, “Mascarpone Cheese”.
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.
What to do with this Ground Corn record
159 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ground Corn are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Ground Corn to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Ground Corn — common follow-ups
Does Ground Corn carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Ground Corn. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ground Corn? ▼
Ground Corn ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,269 of 247,206), appearing in 159 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ground Corn so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ground Corn appears in 159 products (#2,269 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ground Corn). 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.