Popcorn
Popcorn appears in 2,398 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
Popcorn appears in 2,398 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.
- 2,398
- catalogued products
- #357
- usage rank of 247,206
- 470
- named brands represented
- 8%
- 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: 531 of 2398 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Whole Grain Flavored Popcorn; 100% Whole Grain Popping Corn; 100% Whole Grain Popping Corn Classic Yellow to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Popcorn itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
531 of 2,398 linked records have some flagged component
All 2315 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.
Popcorn sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#357 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #357
- 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
- 8%
- Averaged label depth puts Popcorn near the top of the captured list (8% of list length, mean slot 2.7). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Popcorn
Across the 2,398 products on this site that list Popcorn, 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. TBHQ shows up about 16x more often with Popcorn than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Popcorn products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBHQ | 193 | 8% | 0.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 179 | 7.5% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 178 | 7.4% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 101 | 4.2% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 70 | 2.9% | 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 Popcorn
Products Containing Popcorn
16 busy labels from the 2,398 indexed products that list Popcorn:
High-volume peers for Popcorn beside “Natural & Artificial Flavors”
Popcorn sits among other busy catalog rows (2,398 products, mean score 91.9/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Natural & Artificial Flavors · Cellulose Gel · Pasteurized Cream. 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.
Using the Popcorn evidence
Use the 2,398-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Popcorn to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Popcorn with a peer such as “Natural & Artificial Flavors” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Popcorn
Does Popcorn 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 Popcorn. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Popcorn? ▼
Popcorn ranks in the top decile by product count (#357 of 247,206), appearing in 2,398 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Popcorn so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Popcorn appears in 2,398 products (#357 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Popcorn). 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.