Whole Wheat Flakes
Whole Wheat Flakes appears in 94 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 Wheat Flakes appears in 94 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.
- 94
- catalogued products
- #3,264
- usage rank of 247,206
- 35
- named brands represented
- 27%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
60.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Whole Wheat Flakes as the trigger. Open records such as 100% whole grain bread; 100% Whole Wheat Bread; Chewy granola bar and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 96.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 27% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
60.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 78 of 89 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Whole Wheat Flakes - usage rank #3,264
- Usage rank
- #3,264
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 26 others that also appear in exactly 94 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 27%
- Averaged label depth puts Whole Wheat Flakes in the upper half of the list (27% of list length, mean slot 8.4). 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 Wheat Flakes
Across the 94 products on this site that list Whole Wheat Flakes, 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 10.6x more often with Whole Wheat Flakes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Whole Wheat Flakes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 57 | 60.6% | 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 Wheat Flakes
Products Containing Whole Wheat Flakes
16 busy labels from the 94 indexed products that list Whole Wheat Flakes:
High-volume peers for Whole Wheat Flakes beside “100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil”
High-volume peers for Whole Wheat Flakes: 94 products, mean screening score 96.6/100. Nearest count peers include “100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil”, “Coconut Fat”, “Natural Coffee Flavor”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Whole Wheat Flakes page
Use the 94-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Whole Wheat Flakes and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Whole Wheat Flakes
How should I read safety signals when Whole Wheat Flakes sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
60.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Whole Wheat Flakes is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Wheat Flakes? ▼
Whole Wheat Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,264 of 247,206), appearing in 94 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Whole Wheat Flakes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Wheat Flakes appears in 94 products (#3,264 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Wheat Flakes). 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.