Masa
Masa appears in 47 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
Masa appears in 47 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.
- 47
- catalogued products
- #5,176
- usage rank of 247,206
- 21
- named brands represented
- 16%
- 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 Masa - usage rank #5,176
- Usage rank
- #5,176
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 83 others that also appear in exactly 47 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 16%
- Mean relative depth 16% across 47 parsed labels, slot 6.0 on average. Masa tends to sit near the top 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Masa spans 21 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with BISCUITS; Black Bean & Cheese Tamale; Blue corn amd veggie tamales when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
21 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 33 of 45 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Masa
Across the 47 products on this site that list Masa, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.2x more often with Masa than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Masa products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 12.8% | 5.7% |
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 Masa
Products Containing Masa
16 busy labels from the 47 indexed products that list Masa:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Masa: 47 listings averaging 94.8/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Masa record
Start from Masa's 47 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Masa and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Masa
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Masa? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Masa, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,176 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Masa? ▼
Masa ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,176 of 247,206), appearing in 47 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Masa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Masa appears in 47 products (#5,176 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Masa). 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.