Wheat Flour

Wheat Flour appears in 52,687 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 Flour appears in 52,687 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.

52,687
catalogued products
#9
usage rank of 247,206
6,354
named brands represented
17%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 16118 of 52687 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0875754000640; 1 donut; 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Wheat Flour itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

16118 of 52,687 linked records have some flagged component

All 51731 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 Flour: top-decile catalog footprint (#9 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#9
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
17%
Mean relative depth 17% across 52,725 parsed labels, slot 6.1 on average. Wheat Flour tends to sit near the top of the captured 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 Flour

Across the 52,687 products on this site that list Wheat Flour, 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 2x more often with Wheat Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +5.9ppCaramel Coloring+5.9ppYellow 5: +1.2ppYellow 5+1.2ppRed 40: +0.5ppRed 40+0.5ppCarrageenan: +1.3ppCarrageenan+1.3ppYellow 6: +1.5ppYellow 6+1.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Wheat Flour products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
5.9pp
Yellow 5
1.2pp
Red 40
0.5pp
Carrageenan
1.3pp
Yellow 6
1.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Wheat Flour products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 6,101 11.6% 5.7%
Yellow 5 3,180 6% 4.8%
Red 40 3,134 5.9% 5.4%
Carrageenan 3,075 5.8% 4.5%
Yellow 6 2,583 4.9% 3.4%

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 Flour

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 5060708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Wheat Flour
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Wheat Flour beside “Soy Lecithin”

Wheat Flour sits among other busy catalog rows (52,687 products, mean score 90.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Soy Lecithin · Niacin · Riboflavin. 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.

Next steps from the Wheat Flour page

52,687 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Wheat Flour are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Wheat Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare Wheat Flour with a peer such as “Soy Lecithin” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Wheat Flour

Does Wheat Flour 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 Flour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Wheat Flour?

Wheat Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#9 of 247,206), appearing in 52,687 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Wheat Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Wheat Flour appears in 52,687 products (#9 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wheat Flour). 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.