Semolina
Semolina appears in 2,614 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
Semolina appears in 2,614 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.
- 2,614
- catalogued products
- #337
- usage rank of 247,206
- 394
- named brands represented
- 13%
- 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.
Semolina: top-decile catalog footprint (#337 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #337
- 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
- 13%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,614 products listing it (mean slot 4.9). Semolina 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.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Semolina spans 394 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 3 Cheese Macaroni; 365 everyday value, organic rustic vegetable soup; Academia Barilla, Farfalle Barilla Pasta when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
394 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1278 of 2469 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 Semolina
Across the 2,614 products on this site that list Semolina, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Semolina products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 110 | 4.2% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 106 | 4.1% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 49 | 1.9% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 46 | 1.8% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 44 | 1.7% | 1.1% |
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 Semolina
Products Containing Semolina
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 2,614 indexed products containing Semolina:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Pasteurized Part-skim Milk”)
High-volume peers for Semolina: 2,614 products, mean screening score 98/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Pasteurized Part-skim Milk · Alcohol · Torula yeast. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Semolina record
2,614 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Semolina are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Semolina to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Semolina next to “Alcohol” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open 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 Semolina? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Semolina, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#337 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Semolina? ▼
Semolina ranks in the top decile by product count (#337 of 247,206), appearing in 2,614 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 Semolina so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Semolina appears in 2,614 products (#337 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Semolina). 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.