Quinoa Flour
Quinoa Flour appears in 393 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
Quinoa Flour appears in 393 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.
- 393
- catalogued products
- #1,210
- usage rank of 247,206
- 136
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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 Quinoa Flour - usage rank #1,210
- Usage rank
- #1,210
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 395 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 395 products listing it (mean slot 7.9). Quinoa Flour usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Quinoa Flour spans 136 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 365 everyday value, lightly salted tortilla chips, multigrain; 7 Grain With Flax Bread; 8" Quinoa Flour Gluten Free Tortillas when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
136 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 268 of 372 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 Quinoa Flour
Across the 393 products on this site that list Quinoa Flour, 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 Quinoa Flour products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 7 | 1.8% | 4.5% |
| Monk fruit extract | 6 | 1.5% | 0.5% |
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 Quinoa Flour
Products Containing Quinoa Flour
High-volume slice (16 of 393) for products naming Quinoa Flour:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Potassium Sorbate And Calcium Disodium Edta”)
High-volume peers for Quinoa Flour: 393 products, mean screening score 99.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Potassium Sorbate And Calcium Disodium Edta · Tomatillos · Corn Masa Flour. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Quinoa Flour evidence
Use the 393-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Quinoa Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Quinoa Flour
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Quinoa Flour? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Quinoa Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,210 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Quinoa Flour? ▼
Quinoa Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,210 of 247,206), appearing in 393 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 Quinoa Flour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Quinoa Flour appears in 393 products (#1,210 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Quinoa Flour). 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.