Whole Durum Wheat Flour

Whole Durum Wheat Flour appears in 211 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

Whole Durum Wheat Flour appears in 211 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.

211
catalogued products
#1,877
usage rank of 247,206
63
named brands represented
16%
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 Whole Durum Wheat Flour - usage rank #1,877

Usage rank
#1,877
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 211 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
16%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 211 products listing it (mean slot 2.5). Whole Durum Wheat Flour 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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 1.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whole Durum Wheat Flour spans 63 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Whole grain Penne; 100% Whole Grain Spaghetti; 100% Whole Grain Spaghetti, Whole Wheat Macaroni Product when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

63 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 144 of 201 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.

Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.

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 Whole Durum Wheat Flour

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 Whole Durum Wheat Flour
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 Whole Durum Wheat Flour beside “Acidity Regulators”

High-volume peers for Whole Durum Wheat Flour: 211 products, mean screening score 99.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Acidity Regulators; Bourbon; Leek. 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 Whole Durum Wheat Flour page

Use the 211-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Whole Durum Wheat Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Place Whole Durum Wheat Flour next to “Bourbon” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Questions readers ask about Whole Durum Wheat Flour

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whole Durum Wheat Flour?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whole Durum Wheat Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,877 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Durum Wheat Flour?

Whole Durum Wheat Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,877 of 247,206), appearing in 211 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Whole Durum Wheat Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Durum Wheat Flour appears in 211 products (#1,877 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Durum Wheat Flour). 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.