Wheat Gluten Protein
Wheat Gluten Protein appears in 22 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 Gluten Protein appears in 22 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.
- 22
- catalogued products
- #8,787
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
72.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Wheat Gluten Protein as the trigger. Open records such as Cheese & Bacon Dip; Creole Cream Base; Crock-pot savory pot roast seasoning mix and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 93.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 56% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
72.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 22 of 22 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Wheat Gluten Protein sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#8,787 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,787
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 22 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 22 products listing it (mean slot 29.0). Wheat Gluten Protein usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
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 Protein
Products Containing Wheat Gluten Protein
16 busy labels from the 22 indexed products that list Wheat Gluten Protein:
Wheat Gluten Protein vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Wheat Gluten Protein: 22 products, mean screening score 93/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Wheat Gluten Protein record
Start from Wheat Gluten Protein's 22 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Wheat Gluten Protein to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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
How should I read safety signals when Wheat Gluten Protein sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
72.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Wheat Gluten Protein is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Wheat Gluten Protein? ▼
Wheat Gluten Protein ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,787 of 247,206), appearing in 22 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Wheat Gluten Protein so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Wheat Gluten Protein appears in 22 products (#8,787 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wheat Gluten Protein). 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.