Wheat Starch
Wheat Starch carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 7,897 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Wheat Starch appears in 7,897 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.
- 7,897
- catalogued products
- #144
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,414
- 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.
High-volume listing for Wheat Starch - usage rank #144
- Usage rank
- #144
- 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
- 56%
- Averaged label depth puts Wheat Starch in the lower half of the list (56% of list length, mean slot 20.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3167 of 7897 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1 donut; 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 1/2 Loaf to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Wheat Starch itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
3167 of 7,897 linked records have some flagged component
All 7850 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 Starch
Across the 7,897 products on this site that list Wheat Starch, 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 2.4x more often with Wheat Starch than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Wheat Starch products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,098 | 13.9% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 874 | 11.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 859 | 10.9% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 792 | 10% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 654 | 8.3% | 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.
Function
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, 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 Starch
Products Containing Wheat Starch
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 7,897 indexed products containing Wheat Starch:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Vitamin B6”)
High-volume peers for Wheat Starch: 7,897 products, mean screening score 85.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Vitamin B6 · Sunflower Lecithin · Natural Chocolate. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Wheat Starch page
Start from Wheat Starch's 7,897 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Wheat Starch and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Wheat Starch next to “Sunflower Lecithin” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Wheat Starch — common follow-ups
Does Wheat Starch 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 Starch 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 Starch? ▼
Wheat Starch ranks in the top decile by product count (#144 of 247,206), appearing in 7,897 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Wheat Starch do in food? ▼
Wheat Starch is recorded as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, solvent or vehicle, stabilizer or thickener, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wheat Starch). 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.