Soy Grits
Soy Grits appears in 73 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
Soy Grits appears in 73 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.
- 73
- catalogued products
- #3,864
- usage rank of 247,206
- 35
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 27 of 73 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, lightly salted tortilla chips, multigrain; Assorted Gourmet Cheese Crackers; bar-b-q flavored potato chips to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Soy Grits itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
27 of 73 linked records have some flagged component
All 70 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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.
Soy Grits sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,864 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,864
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 73 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 73 products listing it (mean slot 10.9). Soy Grits usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Soy Grits
Across the 73 products on this site that list Soy Grits, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 8.5x more often with Soy Grits than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Soy Grits products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 15 | 20.5% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 7 | 9.6% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 5 | 6.8% | 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 Soy Grits
Products Containing Soy Grits
High-volume slice (16 of 73) for products naming Soy Grits:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added To Retain Freshness”)
Top-decile company for Soy Grits: 73 listings averaging 93/100. Nearest count peers include “Added To Retain Freshness”, “Anti Caking Agent”, “Chiles”.
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.
Next steps from the Soy Grits page
Use the 73-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Soy Grits and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Soy Grits next to “Anti Caking Agent” (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
Does Soy Grits 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 Soy Grits. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Soy Grits? ▼
Soy Grits ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,864 of 247,206), appearing in 73 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Soy Grits so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Soy Grits appears in 73 products (#3,864 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Soy Grits). 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.