Select Potatoes
Select Potatoes appears in 71 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
Select Potatoes appears in 71 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.
- 71
- catalogued products
- #3,937
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 0%
- 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 Select Potatoes - usage rank #3,937
- Usage rank
- #3,937
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 71 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 0%
- Mean relative depth 0% across 71 parsed labels, slot 1.0 on average. Select Potatoes tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Select Potatoes spans 12 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Barbeque Potato Chips; Bbi, Potato Sticks; Cape cod, hand cooked potato chips when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
12 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 38 of 66 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 Select Potatoes
Products Containing Select Potatoes
16 busy labels from the 71 indexed products that list Select Potatoes:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “2% Or Less Of Sugar”)
Top-decile company for Select Potatoes: 71 listings averaging 98.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 2% Or Less Of Sugar; All Purpose Flour; Organic Baker's Yeast Extract.
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.
What to do with this Select Potatoes record
71 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Select Potatoes are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Select Potatoes and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Select Potatoes next to “All Purpose Flour” (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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Select Potatoes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Select Potatoes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,937 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Select Potatoes? ▼
Select Potatoes ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,937 of 247,206), appearing in 71 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Select Potatoes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Select Potatoes appears in 71 products (#3,937 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Select Potatoes). 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.