Whole Grain Corn Meal
Whole Grain Corn Meal appears in 58 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 Meal appears in 58 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.
- 58
- catalogued products
- #4,499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 21
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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 Corn Meal: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,499 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 53 others that also appear in exactly 58 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Mean relative depth 20% across 58 parsed labels, slot 5.4 on average. Whole Grain Corn Meal tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 12.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whole Grain Corn Meal spans 21 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 19 grain bread, 19 grain; 21 Grains & Seeds Thin Sliced Organic Bread; Ancient grains quinoa sticks when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
21 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 45 of 58 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 Corn Meal
Across the 58 products on this site that list Whole Grain Corn Meal, 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 Corn Meal products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 8.6% | 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 Corn Meal
Products Containing Whole Grain Corn Meal
16 busy labels from the 58 indexed products that list Whole Grain Corn Meal:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Dried Banana Flakes”)
Top-decile company for Whole Grain Corn Meal: 58 listings averaging 98.5/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Dried Banana Flakes; Bean Sprouts; Bicarbonate.
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.
Next steps from the Whole Grain Corn Meal page
Use the 58-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 Grain Corn Meal to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Whole Grain Corn Meal with a peer such as “Dried Banana Flakes” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Whole Grain Corn Meal — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whole Grain Corn Meal? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whole Grain Corn Meal, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,499 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Grain Corn Meal? ▼
Whole Grain Corn Meal ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,499 of 247,206), appearing in 58 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 Meal so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Grain Corn Meal appears in 58 products (#4,499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Grain Corn Meal). 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.