Wheat Gluten
Wheat Gluten carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 10,609 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Wheat Gluten appears in 10,609 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.
- 10,609
- catalogued products
- #110
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,568
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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 Wheat Gluten - usage rank #110
- Usage rank
- #110
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Mean relative depth 51% across 10,610 parsed labels, slot 17.4 on average. Wheat Gluten tends to sit in the lower half of the 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 this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2832 of 10609 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 Oz Whole Grain Fish Stx; 1/2 Loaf; 100% Angus Beef Cheeseburger to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Wheat Gluten 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.
2832 of 10,609 linked records have some flagged component
All 10604 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 Wheat Gluten
Across the 10,609 products on this site that list Wheat Gluten, 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 1.9x more often with Wheat Gluten than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Wheat Gluten products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,161 | 10.9% | 5.7% |
| Potassium Iodate | 790 | 7.4% | 0.2% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 629 | 5.9% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 484 | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 391 | 3.7% | 2.4% |
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.
Function
FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
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 Gluten
Products Containing Wheat Gluten
High-volume slice (16 of 10,609) for products naming Wheat Gluten:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Peanuts”)
High-volume peers for Wheat Gluten: 10,609 products, mean screening score 93.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Peanuts”, “Cinnamon”, “Dehydrated Parsley”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Gluten page
Start from Wheat Gluten's 10,609 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Wheat Gluten before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Wheat Gluten next to “Cinnamon” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Wheat Gluten carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Wheat Gluten 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 Wheat Gluten? ▼
Wheat Gluten ranks in the top decile by product count (#110 of 247,206), appearing in 10,609 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Wheat Gluten do in food? ▼
Wheat Gluten is recorded as a firming agent, flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, solvent or vehicle, stabilizer or thickener, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wheat Gluten). 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.