Whole Grain Popping Corn

Whole Grain Popping Corn appears in 125 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 Popping Corn appears in 125 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.

125
catalogued products
#2,692
usage rank of 247,206
11
named brands represented
1%
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 Popping Corn sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,692 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,692
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 22 others that also appear in exactly 125 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
1%
Mean relative depth 1% across 125 parsed labels, slot 1.1 on average. Whole Grain Popping Corn 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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 16% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whole Grain Popping Corn spans 11 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Butte popcorn; Butter Classic; Butter Classic Bag Gourmet Popping Corn when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

11 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 104 of 116 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 Popping Corn

Across the 125 products on this site that list Whole Grain Popping 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. Sucralose shows up about 5x more often with Whole Grain Popping Corn than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Whole Grain Popping Corn products Share of all products
Sucralose 17 13.6% 2.7%

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 Popping 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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Whole Grain Popping 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 “Aluminum Free Baking Powder”)

High-volume peers for Whole Grain Popping Corn: 125 products, mean screening score 97/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Aluminum Free Baking Powder · Annatto Extracts · Apple Concentrate. 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 Grain Popping Corn page

Start from Whole Grain Popping Corn's 125 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Whole Grain Popping Corn to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare Whole Grain Popping Corn with a peer such as “Aluminum Free Baking Powder” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Whole Grain Popping Corn

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whole Grain Popping Corn?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whole Grain Popping Corn, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,692 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

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

Whole Grain Popping Corn ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,692 of 247,206), appearing in 125 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Whole Grain Popping Corn so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Grain Popping Corn appears in 125 products (#2,692 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Grain Popping 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.