Whole Grain Blend
Whole Grain Blend appears in 232 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 Grain Blend appears in 232 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.
- 232
- catalogued products
- #1,776
- usage rank of 247,206
- 48
- named brands represented
- 8%
- 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.
Whole Grain Blend sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,776 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,776
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 232 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 8%
- Averaged label depth puts Whole Grain Blend near the top of the captured list (8% of list length, mean slot 3.7). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whole Grain Blend spans 48 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Apple spice protein & fiber hot oatmeal, apple spice; Artisan Crust Pepperoni Pizza; Banana Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
48 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 217 of 228 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Whole Grain Blend
Across the 232 products on this site that list Whole Grain Blend, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Whole Grain Blend products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 2.6% | 5.7% |
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 Whole Grain Blend
Products Containing Whole Grain Blend
16 busy labels from the 232 indexed products that list Whole Grain Blend:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “For Color Retention”)
High-volume peers for Whole Grain Blend: 232 products, mean screening score 99.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: For Color Retention · Reb M · Savory. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Whole Grain Blend evidence
232 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Whole Grain Blend are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Whole Grain Blend to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Whole Grain Blend with a peer such as “For Color Retention” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whole Grain Blend? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whole Grain Blend, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,776 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Grain Blend? ▼
Whole Grain Blend ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,776 of 247,206), appearing in 232 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Whole Grain Blend so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Grain Blend appears in 232 products (#1,776 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Grain Blend). 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.