Rice Starch
Rice Starch carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 3,334 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Rice Starch appears in 3,334 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 3,334
- catalogued products
- #282
- usage rank of 247,206
- 678
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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 Starch - usage rank #282
- Usage rank
- #282
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Averaged label depth puts Rice Starch in the upper half of the list (48% of list length, mean slot 14.5). 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Rice Starch spans 678 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 14 Garden Vegetable Soup; 3 Cheese Chicken Alfredo; 3 Seeded Wholegrain Sandwich Rolls when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
678 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 3041 of 3286 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 Rice Starch
Across the 3,334 products on this site that list Rice Starch, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.6x more often with Rice Starch than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Rice Starch products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 233 | 7% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 184 | 5.5% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 98 | 2.9% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 77 | 2.3% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 76 | 2.3% | 3.4% |
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.
Function
STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Starch
Products Containing Rice Starch
16 busy labels from the 3,334 indexed products that list Rice Starch:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Egg Yolk”)
High-volume peers for Rice Starch: 3,334 products, mean screening score 95.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Egg Yolk; Brown Rice Syrup; Dark Chocolate. 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 Rice Starch evidence
Use the 3,334-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 Rice Starch to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Rice Starch next to “Brown Rice Syrup” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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
What do the source ratings say about Rice Starch? ▼
Rice Starch has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: Listed. With only 19.9% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with Rice Starch? ▼
Rice Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#282 of 247,206), appearing in 3,334 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Rice Starch do in food? ▼
Rice Starch is recorded as a stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Rice Starch). 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.