Potato Starch - Modified

Potato Starch - Modified appears in 18 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 Starch - Modified appears in 18 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.

18
catalogued products
#10,099
usage rank of 247,206
10
named brands represented
52%
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 - Modified - usage rank #10,099

Usage rank
#10,099
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 399 others that also appear in exactly 18 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
52%
Mean relative depth 52% across 18 parsed labels, slot 14.6 on average. Potato Starch - Modified tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potato Starch - Modified spans 10 named brands and is led by the Undefined group. Start with Baby cakes mini potato hash browns; Crinkle - cut french - fried potatoes; Extra Crispy Crinkle Fries 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.

10 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 18 of 18 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.

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 - Modified

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 406080100120 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Potato Starch - Modified
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.

Potato Starch - Modified vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Potato Starch - Modified: 18 products, mean screening score 96.9/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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 Potato Starch - Modified record

18 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Potato Starch - Modified are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Potato Starch - Modified to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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 - Modified

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Potato Starch - Modified?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Potato Starch - Modified, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,099 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Potato Starch - Modified?

Potato Starch - Modified ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,099 of 247,206), appearing in 18 indexed products led by Undefined. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Potato Starch - Modified so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potato Starch - Modified appears in 18 products (#10,099 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potato Starch - Modified). 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.