Rice Paper

Rice Paper appears in 28 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 Paper appears in 28 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.

28
catalogued products
#7,422
usage rank of 247,206
10
named brands represented
49%
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 Rice Paper - usage rank #7,422

Usage rank
#7,422
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 182 others that also appear in exactly 28 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
49%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 28 products listing it (mean slot 17.6). Rice Paper 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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Rice Paper spans 10 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Chicken & Shrimp Vietnamese Spring Roll, Chicken & Shrimp; CRISPY GOLDEN APPETIZER TRIO; Mini Shrimp Spring Rolls when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

10 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 27 of 28 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 Rice Paper

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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Rice Paper
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Rice Paper sits among other busy catalog rows (28 products, mean score 99.3/100). 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.

Next steps from the Rice Paper page

Use the 28-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Rice Paper — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Rice Paper?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Rice Paper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,422 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Rice Paper?

Rice Paper ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,422 of 247,206), appearing in 28 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Rice Paper so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Rice Paper appears in 28 products (#7,422 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Rice Paper). 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.