Oat Bran
Oat Bran appears in 932 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
Oat Bran appears in 932 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.
- 932
- catalogued products
- #698
- usage rank of 247,206
- 275
- named brands represented
- 44%
- 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.
Oat Bran: top-decile catalog footprint (#698 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #698
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 932 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 44%
- Averaged label depth puts Oat Bran in the upper half of the list (44% of list length, mean slot 12.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Oat Bran spans 275 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 10 Grain Bread Mix; 10 Grain Hot Cereal; 100% Mass Gainer Chocolate Fudge Brownie when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
275 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 747 of 903 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 Oat Bran
Across the 932 products on this site that list Oat Bran, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Oat Bran products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 68 | 7.3% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 21 | 2.3% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 17 | 1.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 11 | 1.2% | 2.4% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 10 | 1.1% | 1.8% |
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 Oat Bran
Products Containing Oat Bran
16 busy labels from the 932 indexed products that list Oat Bran:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Blueberry”)
Oat Bran sits among other busy catalog rows (932 products, mean score 97.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Blueberry · Malt Syrup · Palm Kernel And Palm Oil. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Oat Bran page
Start from Oat Bran's 932 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Oat Bran to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Oat Bran next to “Malt Syrup” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Oat Bran — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Oat Bran? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Oat Bran, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#698 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Oat Bran? ▼
Oat Bran ranks in the top decile by product count (#698 of 247,206), appearing in 932 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 Oat Bran so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Oat Bran appears in 932 products (#698 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Oat Bran). 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.