Long Grain
Long Grain 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
Long Grain 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
- 18
- named brands represented
- 64%
- 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.
Long Grain sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#7,222 / 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
- 64%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 29 products listing it (mean slot 2.3). Long Grain usually falls in the lower half of the 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 13.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Long Grain spans 18 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 90 Second Rice, Bang Bang Flavored; Bayou recipe cookin' shrimp & sausage gumbo spicy mix of creole seasoned vegetables, plump shrimp and andouille sausage simmered in a spicy southern inspired roux; Beanitos, Black Bean Chips, The Original when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
18 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 19 of 28 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 Long Grain
Products Containing Long Grain
High-volume slice (16 of 29) for products naming Long Grain:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Long Grain sits among other busy catalog rows (29 products, mean score 99/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Long Grain record
Start from Long Grain's 29 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Long Grain before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 Long Grain
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Long Grain? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Long Grain, 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 Long Grain? ▼
Long Grain ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Long Grain so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Long Grain appears in 29 products (#7,222 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Long Grain). 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.