White Bread
White Bread appears in 48 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
White Bread appears in 48 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.
- 48
- catalogued products
- #5,109
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 11%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
64.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify White Bread as the trigger. Open records such as American Grilled Cheese Sandwich; Bologna & American On White; Chicken Salad Sandwich and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 88.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 11% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
64.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 48 of 48 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.
White Bread: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,109 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,109
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 66 others that also appear in exactly 48 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 11%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 48 products listing it (mean slot 5.9). White Bread usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 else is usually in the same product as White Bread
Across the 48 products on this site that list White Bread, 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 13x more often with White Bread than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of White Bread products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 15 | 31.3% | 2.4% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 7 | 14.6% | 0.2% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 12.5% | 4.5% |
| Potassium Iodate | 6 | 12.5% | 0.2% |
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 White Bread
Products Containing White Bread
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 48 indexed products containing White Bread:
White Bread vs other top-decile catalog footprints
White Bread sits among other busy catalog rows (48 products, mean score 88.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the White Bread evidence
Start from White Bread's 48 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for White Bread and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
White Bread — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when White Bread sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
64.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming White Bread is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with White Bread? ▼
White Bread ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,109 of 247,206), appearing in 48 indexed products led by Sandwiches. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is White Bread so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Bread appears in 48 products (#5,109 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Bread). 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.