Maize Flour
Maize Flour appears in 59 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 Flour appears in 59 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.
- 59
- catalogued products
- #4,436
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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.
Maize Flour: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,436 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,436
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 62 others that also appear in exactly 59 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 59 products listing it (mean slot 14.7). Maize Flour 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Maize Flour spans 24 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 4 Battered Cod Fillets; 4 Cherry Bakewell Tarts; 4 White Rolls when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
24 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 54 of 57 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 Flour
Products Containing Maize Flour
16 busy labels from the 59 indexed products that list Maize Flour:
Maize Flour vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Maize Flour: 59 products, mean screening score 98.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 100% Orange Juice From Concentrate · Organic Alfalfa Grass · Dried Ancho Pepper. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
What to do with this Maize Flour record
Use the 59-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Maize Flour before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Maize Flour — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Maize Flour? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Maize Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,436 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Maize Flour? ▼
Maize Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,436 of 247,206), appearing in 59 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Maize Flour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Maize Flour appears in 59 products (#4,436 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Maize Flour). 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.