Potato Sticks
Potato Sticks appears in 26 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 Sticks appears in 26 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.
- 26
- catalogued products
- #7,791
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 12%
- 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.
Potato Sticks sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#7,791 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,791
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 209 others that also appear in exactly 26 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 12%
- Averaged label depth puts Potato Sticks near the top of the captured list (12% of list length, mean slot 4.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Potato Sticks spans 11 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Breaded Cheddar Bacon Encrusted Shrimp; Clear Springs Foods, Crunchy Potato Crusted Mahi Mahi Fillets; Crunchy Potato Twigs, Potato Snacks when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
11 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 15 of 24 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 Sticks
Products Containing Potato Sticks
16 busy labels from the 26 indexed products that list Potato Sticks:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Potato Sticks: 26 listings averaging 97.9/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Potato Sticks record
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- Review the sampled product records that list Potato Sticks to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Potato Sticks
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Potato Sticks? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Potato Sticks, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,791 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Potato Sticks? ▼
Potato Sticks ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,791 of 247,206), appearing in 26 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Potato Sticks so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Potato Sticks appears in 26 products (#7,791 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Potato Sticks). 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.