Potato Starch
Potato Starch carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 11,428 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Potato Starch appears in 11,428 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 11,428
- catalogued products
- #96
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,231
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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 Starch - usage rank #96
- Usage rank
- #96
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Mean relative depth 46% across 11,660 parsed labels, slot 12.5 on average. Potato Starch 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potato Starch spans 2231 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 1 To 1 Baking Flour; 1 to 1 Baking Flour; 1-2-3 gluten free, divinely decadent, silky & rich brownies baking mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
2231 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10038 of 11209 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 Starch
Across the 11,428 products on this site that list Potato Starch, 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 Starch products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 810 | 7.1% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 765 | 6.7% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 381 | 3.3% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 272 | 2.4% | 4.8% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 266 | 2.3% | 2.1% |
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
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
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 Starch
Products Containing Potato Starch
16 busy labels from the 11,428 indexed products that list Potato Starch:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Turmeric”)
Potato Starch sits among other busy catalog rows (11,428 products, mean score 95.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Turmeric · Cellulose Gum · Vitamin B2. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Potato Starch record
11,428 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potato Starch are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Potato Starch to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Potato Starch next to “Cellulose Gum” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Questions readers ask about Potato Starch
What do the source ratings say about Potato Starch? ▼
Potato Starch has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 19.9% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potato Starch? ▼
Potato Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#96 of 247,206), appearing in 11,428 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Potato Starch do in food? ▼
Potato Starch is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, lubricant or release agent, nutrient supplement, stabilizer or thickener, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potato Starch). 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.