Dried Sour Dough

Dried Sour Dough appears in 36 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

Dried Sour Dough appears in 36 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.

36
catalogued products
#6,225
usage rank of 247,206
11
named brands represented
53%
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.

Dried Sour Dough sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,225 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,225
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 114 others that also appear in exactly 36 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
53%
Mean relative depth 53% across 36 parsed labels, slot 19.8 on average. Dried Sour Dough tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 2.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dried Sour Dough spans 11 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Apple Cinnamon Morning Rounds; Basque Cafe, Sprouted Ten Grain Batard; Blueberry, Snacking Rounds, US when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

11 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 32 of 35 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 Dried Sour Dough

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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Dried Sour Dough
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

Top-decile company for Dried Sour Dough: 36 listings averaging 98.3/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Dried Sour Dough record

36 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dried Sour Dough are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Dried Sour Dough to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Dried Sour Dough — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dried Sour Dough?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dried Sour Dough, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,225 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Dried Sour Dough?

Dried Sour Dough ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,225 of 247,206), appearing in 36 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 Dried Sour Dough so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dried Sour Dough appears in 36 products (#6,225 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dried Sour Dough). 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.