Rice Cereal

Rice Cereal appears in 54 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

Rice Cereal appears in 54 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.

54
catalogued products
#4,732
usage rank of 247,206
9
named brands represented
26%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Audit the co-occurring flags first

72.2% 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 Cereal as the trigger. Open records such as Chewy Muesli Bar; Coated Crisped Rice Treats; Cocoa Krispies Treats and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 59.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 26% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

72.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 54 of 54 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.

Rice Cereal sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,732 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#4,732
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 46 others that also appear in exactly 54 products, listed in more products than 98.1% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
26%
Averaged label depth puts Rice Cereal in the upper half of the list (26% of list length, mean slot 13.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Rice Cereal

Across the 54 products on this site that list Rice Cereal, 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. Red 40 shows up about 6.2x more often with Rice Cereal than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +27.9ppRed 40+27.9ppYellow 6: +29.9ppYellow 6+29.9ppBHT: +32.2ppBHT+32.2ppYellow 5: +26.7ppYellow 5+26.7ppBlue 1: +27.3ppBlue 1+27.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Rice Cereal products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Red 40
27.9pp
Yellow 6
29.9pp
BHT
32.2pp
Yellow 5
26.7pp
Blue 1
27.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Rice Cereal products Share of all products
Red 40 18 33.3% 5.4%
Yellow 6 18 33.3% 3.4%
BHT 18 33.3% 1.1%
Yellow 5 17 31.5% 4.8%
Blue 1 17 31.5% 4.2%

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 Rice Cereal

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 051015 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Rice Cereal
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.

Rice Cereal vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Rice Cereal sits among other busy catalog rows (54 products, mean score 59.8/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 1/10 Of 1% Sodium Benzoate; Annatto And Paprika Extract; Blueberry Bits. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Rice Cereal evidence

Start from Rice Cereal's 54 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Rice Cereal before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare Rice Cereal with a peer such as “1/10 Of 1% Sodium Benzoate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Rice Cereal

How should I read safety signals when Rice Cereal sits in heavily flagged products?

72.2% 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 Cereal is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Rice Cereal?

Rice Cereal ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,732 of 247,206), appearing in 54 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Rice Cereal so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Rice Cereal appears in 54 products (#4,732 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Rice Cereal). 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.