Starch
Starch carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 2,186 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Starch appears in 2,186 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 2,186
- catalogued products
- #377
- usage rank of 247,206
- 874
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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.
Starch sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#377 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #377
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Mean relative depth 51% across 2,204 parsed labels, slot 13.6 on average. Starch 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 679 of 2186 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12pc shrimp tempura kabuki roll wr; 2-minute Noodles; 24g Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Flavor Protein Bar to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Starch itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
679 of 2,186 linked records have some flagged component
All 2157 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Starch
Across the 2,186 products on this site that list Starch, 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. Red 40 shows up about 1.6x more often with Starch than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Starch products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 194 | 8.9% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 169 | 7.7% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 152 | 7% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 144 | 6.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 143 | 6.5% | 5.7% |
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.
Function
Thickener
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 Starch
Products Containing Starch
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 2,186 indexed products containing Starch:
High-volume peers for Starch beside “Hydrolyzed Corn Protein”
High-volume peers for Starch: 2,186 products, mean screening score 89.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Hydrolyzed Corn Protein”, “Agar”, “Cucumbers”. 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 Starch evidence
2,186 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Starch are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Starch and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Starch with a peer such as “Hydrolyzed Corn Protein” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Starch — common follow-ups
Does Starch carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Starch itself carries a CSPI "Safe" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Starch? ▼
Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#377 of 247,206), appearing in 2,186 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Starch do in food? ▼
Starch is recorded as a thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Starch). 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.