Maize
Maize appears in 90 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
Maize appears in 90 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.
- 90
- catalogued products
- #3,385
- usage rank of 247,206
- 46
- named brands represented
- 31%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Maize - usage rank #3,385
- Usage rank
- #3,385
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 26 others that also appear in exactly 90 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 31%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 90 products listing it (mean slot 8.2). Maize usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Maize spans 46 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Atta with multigrains flour; Badatz Paskesz, Twiggs, Flavored Corn Snacks, Onion; Cadbury snow bites chocolate when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
46 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 83 of 86 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 Maize
Products Containing Maize
16 busy labels from the 90 indexed products that list Maize:
Maize vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Maize: 90 listings averaging 98.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added For Freshness; Organic Agave Fiber; B. Bifidum.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Maize evidence
90 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Maize are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Maize and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Maize next to “Organic Agave Fiber” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Maize — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Maize? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Maize, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,385 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Maize? ▼
Maize ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,385 of 247,206), appearing in 90 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Maize so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Maize appears in 90 products (#3,385 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Maize). 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.