Kettle Corn

Kettle Corn appears in 15 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

Kettle Corn appears in 15 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.

15
catalogued products
#11,449
usage rank of 247,206
3
named brands represented
32%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4 of 15 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Food lion, white kettlecorn, fudge drizzled; Fudge Drizzled Kettlecorn; Sweet Chaos to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Kettle Corn itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

4 of 15 linked records have some flagged component

All 15 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.

Kettle Corn: top-decile catalog footprint (#11,449 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#11,449
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
32%
Averaged label depth puts Kettle Corn in the upper half of the list (32% of list length, mean slot 10.1). 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 do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 15 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 Kettle Corn

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 050100150 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Kettle Corn
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Kettle Corn: 15 listings averaging 91/100.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Kettle Corn evidence

Use the 15-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Kettle Corn and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Kettle 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 Kettle Corn. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Kettle Corn?

Kettle Corn ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Kettle Corn so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Kettle Corn appears in 15 products (#11,449 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Kettle 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.