Potato Flour
Potato Flour appears in 2,354 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
Potato Flour appears in 2,354 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.
- 2,354
- catalogued products
- #362
- usage rank of 247,206
- 634
- 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.
High-volume listing for Potato Flour - usage rank #362
- Usage rank
- #362
- 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%
- Mean relative depth 49% across 2,355 parsed labels, slot 17.2 on average. Potato Flour tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potato Flour spans 634 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Whole Grain Bagels; 100% Whole Grain Bread Country White; 100% Whole Grain Original English Muffins when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
634 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2102 of 2304 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 Potato Flour
Across the 2,354 products on this site that list Potato Flour, 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 Potato Flour products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 185 | 7.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 120 | 5.1% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 74 | 3.1% | 2.4% |
| Potassium Iodate | 50 | 2.1% | 0.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 27 | 1.1% | 4.8% |
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 Potato Flour
Products Containing Potato Flour
High-volume slice (16 of 2,354) for products naming Potato Flour:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Tocopherols”)
High-volume peers for Potato Flour: 2,354 products, mean screening score 96.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Tocopherols · Sodium Lactate · Granulated Garlic. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Potato Flour record
Use the 2,354-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Potato Flour and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Potato Flour with a peer such as “Tocopherols” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Potato Flour — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Potato Flour? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Potato Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#362 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potato Flour? ▼
Potato Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#362 of 247,206), appearing in 2,354 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potato Flour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potato Flour appears in 2,354 products (#362 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potato Flour). 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.