Puffed Amaranth
Puffed Amaranth appears in 135 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
Puffed Amaranth appears in 135 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.
- 135
- catalogued products
- #2,527
- usage rank of 247,206
- 19
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
Puffed Amaranth: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,527 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,527
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 19 others that also appear in exactly 135 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Averaged label depth puts Puffed Amaranth in the lower half of the list (60% of list length, mean slot 11.1). 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 1.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Puffed Amaranth spans 19 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with American blend; Ancient Grain Granola; Ancient Grain Granola + Puffs Cereal when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
19 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 76 of 123 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 Puffed Amaranth
Products Containing Puffed Amaranth
16 busy labels from the 135 indexed products that list Puffed Amaranth:
Puffed Amaranth vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Puffed Amaranth: 135 products, mean screening score 99.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added To Stabilize Color; As A Processing Aid; Organic Baby Lettuces. 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 Puffed Amaranth evidence
Start from Puffed Amaranth's 135 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Puffed Amaranth and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Puffed Amaranth next to “As A Processing Aid” (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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Puffed Amaranth? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Puffed Amaranth, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,527 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Puffed Amaranth? ▼
Puffed Amaranth ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,527 of 247,206), appearing in 135 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Puffed Amaranth so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Puffed Amaranth appears in 135 products (#2,527 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Puffed Amaranth). 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.