Rice Bran Wax
Rice Bran Wax carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 1 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Rice Bran Wax appears in 1 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 1
- catalogued products
- #71,300
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1
- named brands represented
- 80%
- 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.
Rice Bran Wax ranks above 71.2% of catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #71,300
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 175,906 others that also appear in exactly 1 product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 80%
- Averaged label depth puts Rice Bran Wax near the end of the captured list (80% of list length, mean slot 13.0). 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Rice Bran Wax as the trigger. Open records such as Holiday Mint Melties and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 80% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1 of 1 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Function
LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE
Products Containing Rice Bran Wax
Full indexed set for Rice Bran Wax — 1 product:
Similar catalog profiles where co-flags already cluster
With 100% co-flag overlap, compare peers on count and mean score separately — Rice Bran Wax spans 1 products at 85/100 average screening score.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Rice Bran Wax page
Use the 1-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Rice Bran Wax before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Rice Bran Wax — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Rice Bran Wax sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Rice Bran Wax is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Rice Bran Wax scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Where does Rice Bran Wax show up across the catalog? ▼
Rice Bran Wax sits above the median for catalog prevalence (1 products, #71,300 of 247,206) across 1 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
What function does Rice Bran Wax serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Rice Bran Wax is recorded as a lubricant or release agent, masticatory substance in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Rice Bran Wax). 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.