White Rice

White Rice appears in 592 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 Rice appears in 592 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.

592
catalogued products
#948
usage rank of 247,206
149
named brands represented
15%
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: 136 of 592 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 12Pc Shrimp Temp Kabuki Roll, Shrimp Temp Kabuki; 12pc shrimp tempura kabuki roll wr; 4pc spicy shrimp inari to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to White Rice itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

136 of 592 linked records have some flagged component

All 575 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.

White Rice sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#948 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#948
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 592 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
15%
Averaged label depth puts White Rice near the top of the captured list (15% of list length, mean slot 5.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as White Rice

Across the 592 products on this site that list White Rice, 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 White Rice than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +8ppCaramel Coloring+8ppCarrageenan: +1.2ppCarrageenan+1.2ppYellow 5: -2.3ppYellow 5-2.3ppBlue 1: -2ppBlue 1-2ppAspartame: +0.5ppAspartame+0.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, White Rice products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
8pp
Carrageenan
1.2pp
Yellow 5
-2.3pp
Blue 1
-2pp
Aspartame
0.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of White Rice products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 81 13.7% 5.7%
Carrageenan 34 5.7% 4.5%
Yellow 5 15 2.5% 4.8%
Blue 1 13 2.2% 4.2%
Aspartame 8 1.4% 0.9%

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 Rice

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing White Rice
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for White Rice beside “Beet Juice”

High-volume peers for White Rice: 592 products, mean screening score 97.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Beet Juice”, “Tamarind Extract”, “Enriched Pasta”. 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 White Rice page

592 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on White Rice are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list White Rice to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare White Rice with a peer such as “Beet Juice” on 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. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does White Rice 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 White Rice. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with White Rice?

White Rice ranks in the top decile by product count (#948 of 247,206), appearing in 592 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is White Rice so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Rice appears in 592 products (#948 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Rice). 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.