Tapioca Starch
Tapioca Starch carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 10,264 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Tapioca Starch appears in 10,264 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 10,264
- catalogued products
- #113
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,151
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Tapioca Starch - usage rank #113
- Usage rank
- #113
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Tapioca Starch in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 12.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2724 of 10264 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1% lowfat cottage cheese; 1% Lowfat Cottage Cheese; 1-2-3 gluten free, divinely decadent, silky & rich brownies baking mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Tapioca Starch 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.
2724 of 10,264 linked records have some flagged component
All 10068 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 Tapioca Starch
Across the 10,264 products on this site that list Tapioca 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 2.5x more often with Tapioca Starch than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tapioca Starch products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 1,167 | 11.4% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 812 | 7.9% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 425 | 4.1% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 423 | 4.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 373 | 3.6% | 4.8% |
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
NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, STABILIZER OR 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 Tapioca Starch
Products Containing Tapioca Starch
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 10,264 indexed products containing Tapioca Starch:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Chocolate Liquor”)
Tapioca Starch sits among other busy catalog rows (10,264 products, mean score 93.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Chocolate Liquor”, “Corn Syrup Solids”, “Pyridoxine Hydrochloride”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Tapioca Starch record
Use the 10,264-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Tapioca Starch before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Tapioca Starch next to “Corn Syrup Solids” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Tapioca 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. Tapioca Starch itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" 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 Tapioca Starch? ▼
Tapioca Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#113 of 247,206), appearing in 10,264 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Tapioca Starch do in food? ▼
Tapioca Starch is recorded as a nutritive sweetener, stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tapioca 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.