Wheat Bran
Wheat Bran appears in 2,457 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 Bran appears in 2,457 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.
- 2,457
- catalogued products
- #351
- usage rank of 247,206
- 530
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 505 of 2457 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% light whole wheat; 100% Whole Grain Bread; 100% whole grain bread, whole grain to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Wheat Bran itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
505 of 2,457 linked records have some flagged component
All 2418 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 Bran sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#351 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #351
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Mean relative depth 43% across 2,457 parsed labels, slot 13.9 on average. Wheat Bran tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Wheat Bran
Across the 2,457 products on this site that list Wheat Bran, 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 1.6x more often with Wheat Bran than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Wheat Bran products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 232 | 9.4% | 5.7% |
| Potassium Iodate | 192 | 7.8% | 0.2% |
| Carrageenan | 102 | 4.2% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 91 | 3.7% | 5.4% |
| BHT | 83 | 3.4% | 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 Wheat Bran
Products Containing Wheat Bran
High-volume slice (16 of 2,457) for products naming Wheat Bran:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cocoa Mass”)
Wheat Bran sits among other busy catalog rows (2,457 products, mean score 95.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Cocoa Mass”, “Erythritol”, “Cherries”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Wheat Bran record
Start from Wheat Bran's 2,457 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Wheat Bran before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Wheat Bran next to “Erythritol” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Wheat Bran — common follow-ups
Does Wheat Bran 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 Bran. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Wheat Bran? ▼
Wheat Bran ranks in the top decile by product count (#351 of 247,206), appearing in 2,457 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 Bran so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Wheat Bran appears in 2,457 products (#351 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wheat Bran). 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.