Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose

Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose appears in 442 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 And Powdered Cellulose appears in 442 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.

442
catalogued products
#1,117
usage rank of 247,206
89
named brands represented
71%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 201 of 442 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 4 Cheese Mexican Shredded Monterey Jack, Asadero, Cheddar & Queso Quesadilla Cheese; 4 Cheese Mexican shredded reduced fat natural cheese; 4 Cheese Pizzeria to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Salted-snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

201 of 442 linked records have some flagged component

All 442 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.

High-volume listing for Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose - usage rank #1,117

Usage rank
#1,117
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 442 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
71%
Averaged label depth puts Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose in the lower half of the list (71% of list length, mean slot 32.9). 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 Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose

Across the 442 products on this site that list Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 7.5x more often with Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +15.5ppSodium Nitrite+15.5ppCarrageenan: +10.4ppCarrageenan+10.4ppCaramel Coloring: +8.3ppCaramel Coloring+8.3ppBHA: +6.1ppBHA+6.1ppBHT: +4.3ppBHT+4.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
15.5pp
Carrageenan
10.4pp
Caramel Coloring
8.3pp
BHA
6.1pp
BHT
4.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 79 17.9% 2.4%
Carrageenan 66 14.9% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 62 14% 5.7%
BHA 30 6.8% 0.7%
BHT 24 5.4% 1.1%

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.

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 And Powdered Cellulose

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 050100150 0246 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose
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 And Powdered Cellulose vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose: 442 products, mean screening score 90.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bay Leaf; Degerminated Yellow Corn Meal; Sodium Polyphosphate. 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.

Using the Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose evidence

Use the 442-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Place Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose next to “Degerminated Yellow Corn Meal” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose — common follow-ups

Does Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose 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 Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose?

Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,117 of 247,206), appearing in 442 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose appears in 442 products (#1,117 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose). 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.