Whole Grain Quinoa
Whole Grain Quinoa appears in 117 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 Quinoa appears in 117 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.
- 117
- catalogued products
- #2,821
- usage rank of 247,206
- 38
- named brands represented
- 30%
- 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 Grain Quinoa - usage rank #2,821
- Usage rank
- #2,821
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 12 others that also appear in exactly 117 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 30%
- Averaged label depth puts Whole Grain Quinoa in the upper half of the list (30% of list length, mean slot 6.6). 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 5.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whole Grain Quinoa spans 38 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 15 Grain & Seed Bread; 19 grain bread, 19 grain; 21 Grains & Seeds Thin Sliced Organic Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
38 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 67 of 103 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 Grain Quinoa
Products Containing Whole Grain Quinoa
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 117 indexed products containing Whole Grain Quinoa:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added As A Dough Conditioner”)
High-volume peers for Whole Grain Quinoa: 117 products, mean screening score 99.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Added As A Dough Conditioner · Beetroot Red · Bifidobacterium Bb-12. 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 Quinoa page
Start from Whole Grain Quinoa's 117 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Whole Grain Quinoa and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Whole Grain Quinoa next to “Beetroot Red” (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. 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 Quinoa
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whole Grain Quinoa? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whole Grain Quinoa, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,821 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Grain Quinoa? ▼
Whole Grain Quinoa ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,821 of 247,206), appearing in 117 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 Quinoa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Grain Quinoa appears in 117 products (#2,821 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Grain Quinoa). 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.