Whole Grains
Whole Grains appears in 104 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 Grains appears in 104 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.
- 104
- catalogued products
- #3,052
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- named brands represented
- 16%
- 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 Grains sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,052 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,052
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 104 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 16%
- Mean relative depth 16% across 104 parsed labels, slot 6.9 on average. Whole Grains tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 1.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whole Grains spans 36 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 12 grain; 12 grain bread; 17 whole grains & seeds bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
36 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 93 of 101 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 Grains
Across the 104 products on this site that list Whole Grains, 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. Potassium Iodate shows up about 72x more often with Whole Grains than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Whole Grains products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Iodate | 15 | 14.4% | 0.2% |
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 Grains
Products Containing Whole Grains
High-volume slice (16 of 104) for products naming Whole Grains:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural Antioxidant”)
Top-decile company for Whole Grains: 104 listings averaging 99.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural Antioxidant; Beet Juice Powder; Organic Brown Flax Seeds.
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 Grains evidence
Start from Whole Grains's 104 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Whole Grains and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Questions readers ask about Whole Grains
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whole Grains? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whole Grains, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,052 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Grains? ▼
Whole Grains ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,052 of 247,206), appearing in 104 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 Grains so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Grains appears in 104 products (#3,052 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Grains). 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.