Rye Flour

Rye Flour appears in 1,048 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

Rye Flour appears in 1,048 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.

1,048
catalogued products
#641
usage rank of 247,206
349
named brands represented
46%
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 255 of 1048 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 10 Grain Bread Mix; 100% Whole Wheat Bread; 12 grain mini snack crackers to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Rye Flour itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

255 of 1,048 linked records have some flagged component

All 1017 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Rye Flour: top-decile catalog footprint (#641 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#641
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
46%
Mean relative depth 46% across 1,048 parsed labels, slot 15.3 on average. Rye Flour tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Rye Flour

Across the 1,048 products on this site that list Rye Flour, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3.1x more often with Rye Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +11.9ppCaramel Coloring+11.9ppSodium Nitrite: +0.8ppSodium Nitrite+0.8ppBHT: +2ppBHT+2ppAzodicarbonamide: +2.4ppAzodicarbonamide+2.4ppPolysorbate 60: +0.5ppPolysorbate 60+0.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Rye Flour products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Caramel Coloring
11.9pp
Sodium Nitrite
0.8pp
BHT
2pp
Azodicarbonamide
2.4pp
Polysorbate 60
0.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Rye Flour products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 184 17.6% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 34 3.2% 2.4%
BHT 32 3.1% 1.1%
Azodicarbonamide 27 2.6% 0.2%
Polysorbate 60 20 1.9% 1.4%

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.

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 Rye Flour

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Rye Flour
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 (near “Organic Mango Puree”)

High-volume peers for Rye Flour: 1,048 products, mean screening score 96.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Mango Puree; Turkey Broth; Avocado Oil. 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 Rye Flour evidence

Use the 1,048-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.

Questions readers ask about Rye Flour

Does Rye Flour carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Rye Flour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Rye Flour?

Rye Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#641 of 247,206), appearing in 1,048 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Rye Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Rye Flour appears in 1,048 products (#641 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Rye Flour). 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.