Oat fiber

Oat fiber carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 2,937 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”

Source-backed answer

Oat fiber appears in 2,937 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.

2,937
catalogued products
#309
usage rank of 247,206
597
named brands represented
49%
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 fiber: top-decile catalog footprint (#309 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#309
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,938 products listing it (mean slot 14.9). Oat fiber 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.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 672 of 2937 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% While Wheat & Honey; 100% Whole Grain Fiber Bread; 100% Whole Grain Wheat Fig Fruit Chewy Cookies to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Oat fiber itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

672 of 2,937 linked records have some flagged component

All 2915 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Oat fiber

Across the 2,937 products on this site that list Oat fiber, 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: +0.6ppCaramel Coloring+0.6ppRed 40: +0.4ppRed 40+0.4ppBlue 1: +1.1ppBlue 1+1.1ppYellow 6: +1.3ppYellow 6+1.3ppCarrageenan: -0.2ppCarrageenan-0.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Oat fiber products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
0.6pp
Red 40
0.4pp
Blue 1
1.1pp
Yellow 6
1.3pp
Carrageenan
-0.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Oat fiber products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 185 6.3% 5.7%
Red 40 171 5.8% 5.4%
Blue 1 157 5.3% 4.2%
Yellow 6 138 4.7% 3.4%
Carrageenan 125 4.3% 4.5%

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.

Function

Other

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 fiber

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Oat fiber
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Palm Kernel”)

High-volume peers for Oat fiber: 2,937 products, mean screening score 92.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Palm Kernel · Peanut · Dried Red Bell Peppers. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Oat fiber record

Use the 2,937-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Oat fiber before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare Oat fiber with a peer such as “Palm Kernel” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Oat fiber carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Oat fiber itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Oat fiber?

Oat fiber ranks in the top decile by product count (#309 of 247,206), appearing in 2,937 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What does Oat fiber do in food?

Oat fiber is recorded as a other in source technical-effect fields.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Oat fiber). 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.