Sweet Potato Starch
Sweet Potato Starch appears in 50 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
Sweet Potato Starch appears in 50 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.
- 50
- catalogued products
- #4,971
- usage rank of 247,206
- 21
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 21 of 50 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Annie chun's, chicken & cilantro mini wontons; Assi brand, fully cooked vegetable & beef dumpling; Beef & Vegetable Dumplings to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to Sweet Potato Starch itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
21 of 50 linked records have some flagged component
All 46 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 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.
High-volume listing for Sweet Potato Starch - usage rank #4,971
- Usage rank
- #4,971
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 50 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 24%
- Mean relative depth 24% across 50 parsed labels, slot 6.4 on average. Sweet Potato Starch tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Sweet Potato Starch
Across the 50 products on this site that list Sweet Potato 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. Carrageenan shows up about 7.6x more often with Sweet Potato Starch than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sweet Potato Starch products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 17 | 34% | 4.5% |
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 Sweet Potato Starch
Products Containing Sweet Potato Starch
16 busy labels from the 50 indexed products that list Sweet Potato Starch:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “2% Dv”)
Top-decile company for Sweet Potato Starch: 50 listings averaging 97.5/100. Nearest count peers include “2% Dv”, “5 %”, “Active Yogurt With L. Bulgaricus”.
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.
Using the Sweet Potato Starch evidence
Start from Sweet Potato Starch's 50 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sweet Potato Starch to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Sweet Potato Starch next to “5 %” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Sweet Potato Starch — common follow-ups
Does Sweet Potato 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. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Sweet Potato Starch. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sweet Potato Starch? ▼
Sweet Potato Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,971 of 247,206), appearing in 50 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sweet Potato Starch so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sweet Potato Starch appears in 50 products (#4,971 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sweet Potato 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.