Natural Wheat Sour
Natural Wheat Sour appears in 37 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
Natural Wheat Sour appears in 37 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.
- 37
- catalogued products
- #6,126
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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: 14 of 37 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Brioche Hot Dog Buns; Chocolate Chip; Cinnamon Raisin Toast to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Natural Wheat Sour itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Sandwiches supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
14 of 37 linked records have some flagged component
All 37 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
Natural Wheat Sour: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,126 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,126
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 98 others that also appear in exactly 37 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Mean relative depth 61% across 37 parsed labels, slot 18.1 on average. Natural Wheat Sour 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 Natural Wheat Sour
Across the 37 products on this site that list Natural Wheat Sour, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 13.5x more often with Natural Wheat Sour than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Natural Wheat Sour products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 12 | 32.4% | 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.
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 Natural Wheat Sour
Products Containing Natural Wheat Sour
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 37 indexed products containing Natural Wheat Sour:
Natural Wheat Sour vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Natural Wheat Sour: 37 products, mean screening score 94.2/100. 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 Natural Wheat Sour record
37 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Natural Wheat Sour are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Natural Wheat Sour and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Natural Wheat Sour — common follow-ups
Does Natural Wheat Sour 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 Natural Wheat Sour. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Natural Wheat Sour? ▼
Natural Wheat Sour ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,126 of 247,206), appearing in 37 indexed products led by Sandwiches. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Wheat Sour so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Wheat Sour appears in 37 products (#6,126 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Wheat Sour). 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.