Panko Bread Crumbs

Panko Bread Crumbs appears in 133 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

Panko Bread Crumbs appears in 133 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.

133
catalogued products
#2,564
usage rank of 247,206
42
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 32 of 133 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Alarm Chili Portabella Mushrooms; Artichoke & Garlic Crimini Mushrooms; Artichoke & Garlic Crimini Mushrooms Fresh Appetizers to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 80–100 score range to Panko Bread Crumbs itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

32 of 133 linked records have some flagged component

All 128 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 80–100 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.

High-volume listing for Panko Bread Crumbs - usage rank #2,564

Usage rank
#2,564
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 133 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
42%
Averaged label depth puts Panko Bread Crumbs in the upper half of the list (42% of list length, mean slot 15.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 Panko Bread Crumbs

Across the 133 products on this site that list Panko Bread Crumbs, 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 3.6x more often with Panko Bread Crumbs than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Panko Bread Crumbs products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 27 20.3% 5.7%
Carrageenan 5 3.8% 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.

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 Panko Bread Crumbs

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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Panko Bread Crumbs
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 “100% Arabica Coffee”)

Top-decile company for Panko Bread Crumbs: 133 listings averaging 98.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Arabica Coffee; Aged Cheddar Cheese; Butter Fat.

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.

Next steps from the Panko Bread Crumbs page

Use the 133-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Panko Bread Crumbs and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Panko Bread Crumbs — common follow-ups

Does Panko Bread Crumbs 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 Panko Bread Crumbs. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Panko Bread Crumbs?

Panko Bread Crumbs ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,564 of 247,206), appearing in 133 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Panko Bread Crumbs so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Panko Bread Crumbs appears in 133 products (#2,564 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Panko Bread Crumbs). 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.