Malt Barley Flour
Malt Barley Flour appears in 102 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
Malt Barley Flour appears in 102 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.
- 102
- catalogued products
- #3,094
- usage rank of 247,206
- 39
- named brands represented
- 19%
- 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: 43 of 102 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 6 Submarine Rolls; Assorted Donuts to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Malt Barley Flour itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
43 of 102 linked records have some flagged component
All 101 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
Malt Barley Flour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,094 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,094
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 21 others that also appear in exactly 102 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 19%
- Mean relative depth 19% across 102 parsed labels, slot 6.8 on average. Malt Barley Flour tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 else is usually in the same product as Malt Barley Flour
Across the 102 products on this site that list Malt Barley Flour, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Potassium Bromate shows up about 137x more often with Malt Barley Flour than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Malt Barley Flour products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Bromate | 14 | 13.7% | 0.1% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 11 | 10.8% | 0.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 8.8% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 5.9% | 2.4% |
| Potassium Iodate | 6 | 5.9% | 0.2% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
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 Malt Barley Flour
Products Containing Malt Barley Flour
High-volume slice (16 of 102) for products naming Malt Barley Flour:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Ada”)
High-volume peers for Malt Barley Flour: 102 products, mean screening score 89.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Ada”, “Apple Extract”, “Baby Corn”. 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 Malt Barley Flour record
Use the 102-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Malt Barley Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Malt Barley Flour — common follow-ups
Does Malt Barley Flour 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 Malt Barley Flour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Malt Barley Flour? ▼
Malt Barley Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,094 of 247,206), appearing in 102 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 Malt Barley Flour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Malt Barley Flour appears in 102 products (#3,094 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Malt Barley 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.