Pearled Barley
Pearled Barley appears in 79 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
Pearled Barley appears in 79 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.
- 79
- catalogued products
- #3,681
- usage rank of 247,206
- 42
- named brands represented
- 37%
- 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.
Pearled Barley sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,681 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,681
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 27 others that also appear in exactly 79 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 37%
- Averaged label depth puts Pearled Barley in the upper half of the list (37% of list length, mean slot 7.5). 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 8.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pearled Barley spans 42 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 7 Grain Hot Cereal; 7 Sisters' Antique Bean & Barley Soup Mix; All Natural Pearled Barley when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
42 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 39 of 56 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 Pearled Barley
Across the 79 products on this site that list Pearled Barley, 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 1.6x more often with Pearled Barley than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pearled Barley products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 8.9% | 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 Pearled Barley
Products Containing Pearled Barley
High-volume slice (16 of 79) for products naming Pearled Barley:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Organic Acerola Cherry Extract”)
Top-decile company for Pearled Barley: 79 listings averaging 99.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Acerola Cherry Extract; Calcium Chloride And Citric Acid; Dry Garlic.
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 Pearled Barley record
Start from Pearled Barley's 79 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Pearled Barley to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Pearled Barley next to “Calcium Chloride And Citric Acid” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Pearled Barley
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pearled Barley? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pearled Barley, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,681 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pearled Barley? ▼
Pearled Barley ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,681 of 247,206), appearing in 79 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 Pearled Barley so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pearled Barley appears in 79 products (#3,681 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pearled Barley). 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.