Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten

Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten appears in 6 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

Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten appears in 6 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.

6
catalogued products
#21,732
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
98%
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.

Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#21,732 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#21,732
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
98%
Mean relative depth 98% across 6 parsed labels, slot 50.8 on average. Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten tends to sit near the end 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten spans 2 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with All natural pepperoni, mozzarella cheese in a puff pastry pie; Mac and Cheese Pie; Mushrooms, Supreme Sauce In A Puff Pastry Pie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

2 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 6 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 6 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 Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten

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 6 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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten All natural pepperoni, mozzarella cheese in a puff pastry pieMac and Cheese PieMushrooms, Supreme Sauce In A Puff Pastry PieAll natural steak, potatoes, gravy in a puff pastry pieAll natural white chicken, veggies, cheddar cheese, adobo sauce in a puff pastry pieTex-mex scramble
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.

Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten sits among other busy catalog rows (6 products, mean score 99.2/100). 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.

Next steps from the Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten page

6 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

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

Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten? ▼

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#21,732 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten? ▼

Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten so common on ingredient lists? ▼

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten appears in 6 products (#21,732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Naturally Modified Vital Wheat Gluten). 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.