Whole Grain Corn

Whole Grain Corn appears in 422 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 Corn appears in 422 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.

422
catalogued products
#1,157
usage rank of 247,206
91
named brands represented
7%
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: 208 of 422 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 8-Grain Wheat Free Cereal; Abound, Tortilla Chips, Nacho Cheese; Assorted breakfast cereal pouches to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Whole Grain Corn itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

208 of 422 linked records have some flagged component

All 403 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.

Whole Grain Corn sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,157 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,157
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 422 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
7%
Averaged label depth puts Whole Grain Corn near the top of the captured list (7% of list length, mean slot 3.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 Whole Grain Corn

Across the 422 products on this site that list Whole Grain Corn, 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 5.4x more often with Whole Grain Corn than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +25.1ppCaramel Coloring+25.1ppRed 40: +11.2ppRed 40+11.2ppBlue 1: +7.2ppBlue 1+7.2ppYellow 6: +3.7ppYellow 6+3.7ppYellow 5: +0.2ppYellow 5+0.2pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Whole Grain Corn 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
25.1pp
Red 40
11.2pp
Blue 1
7.2pp
Yellow 6
3.7pp
Yellow 5
0.2pp
Additive Shared products Share of Whole Grain Corn products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 130 30.8% 5.7%
Red 40 70 16.6% 5.4%
Blue 1 48 11.4% 4.2%
Yellow 6 30 7.1% 3.4%
Yellow 5 21 5% 4.8%

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 Corn

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 708090100110 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Whole Grain Corn
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Black Olives”)

Top-decile company for Whole Grain Corn: 422 listings averaging 88.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Black Olives”, “Potassium Bromate”, “Magnesium Sulfate”.

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.

What to do with this Whole Grain Corn record

Use the 422-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Open the product sample for Whole Grain Corn and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
  • Compare Whole Grain Corn with a peer such as “Black Olives” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • 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 Whole Grain Corn 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 Whole Grain Corn. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Grain Corn?

Whole Grain Corn ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,157 of 247,206), appearing in 422 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 Grain Corn so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Grain Corn appears in 422 products (#1,157 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Grain Corn). 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.