Rice Pasta
Rice Pasta appears in 51 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 Pasta appears in 51 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.
- 51
- catalogued products
- #4,904
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 1%
- 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 Pasta sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,904 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,904
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 66 others that also appear in exactly 51 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 1%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 51 products listing it (mean slot 1.2). Rice Pasta usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Rice Pasta spans 14 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 3 Cheese & Kale Bake; Amy's Bowls Mac & 3 Cheese with Cauliflower; Annie's Homegrown Gluten Free Rice Pasta & Cheddar Micro Cup when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 43 of 50 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 Pasta
Products Containing Rice Pasta
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 51 indexed products containing Rice Pasta:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Agar Gum”)
Rice Pasta sits among other busy catalog rows (51 products, mean score 97.3/100). Nearest count peers include “Agar Gum”, “Aged Red Pepper”, “Alcohol Denat”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Rice Pasta evidence
51 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Rice Pasta are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Rice Pasta before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Rice Pasta next to “Aged Red Pepper” (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. Read the 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 Rice Pasta? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Rice Pasta, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,904 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Rice Pasta? ▼
Rice Pasta ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,904 of 247,206), appearing in 51 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Rice Pasta so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Rice Pasta appears in 51 products (#4,904 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Rice Pasta). 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.