Wheat
Wheat appears in 14,498 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
Wheat appears in 14,498 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.
- 14,498
- catalogued products
- #72
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,035
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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: 3977 of 14498 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 10 Grain Bread Mix; 10-Grain Pancake Mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Wheat itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3977 of 14,498 linked records have some flagged component
All 13959 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.
Wheat: top-decile catalog footprint (#72 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #72
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Mean relative depth 58% across 14,519 parsed labels, slot 18.4 on average. Wheat tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Wheat
Across the 14,498 products on this site that list Wheat, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.8x more often with Wheat than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Wheat products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 2,280 | 15.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 595 | 4.1% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 426 | 2.9% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 386 | 2.7% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 355 | 2.4% | 5.4% |
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 Wheat
Products Containing Wheat
High-volume slice (16 of 14,498) for products naming Wheat:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Vitamin C”)
Wheat sits among other busy catalog rows (14,498 products, mean score 95/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Vitamin C · Enriched Wheat Flour · Monocalcium Phosphate. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Wheat record
Start from Wheat's 14,498 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Wheat and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Wheat with a peer such as “Vitamin C” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. 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.
Questions readers ask about Wheat
Does Wheat 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 Wheat. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Wheat? ▼
Wheat ranks in the top decile by product count (#72 of 247,206), appearing in 14,498 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 Wheat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Wheat appears in 14,498 products (#72 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wheat). 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.