Whole Grain Oat Flour

Whole Grain Oat Flour appears in 1,243 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 Oat Flour appears in 1,243 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.

1,243
catalogued products
#576
usage rank of 247,206
210
named brands represented
15%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

55.5% 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 Grain Oat Flour as the trigger. Open records such as 365 Organic Morning O’s; 4-Grain Whole Grain Cereal; 9 pouches variety pack and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 70.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 15% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

55.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1147 of 1221 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.

Whole Grain Oat Flour sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#576 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#576
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
15%
Averaged label depth puts Whole Grain Oat Flour near the top of the captured list (15% of list length, mean slot 4.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

What else is usually in the same product as Whole Grain Oat Flour

Across the 1,243 products on this site that list Whole Grain Oat Flour, 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. Red 40 shows up about 5.7x more often with Whole Grain Oat Flour than in the catalogue at large.

Red 40: +25.3ppRed 40+25.3ppBlue 1: +21.9ppBlue 1+21.9ppYellow 6: +21.4ppYellow 6+21.4ppYellow 5: +18.1ppYellow 5+18.1ppCaramel Coloring: +9.3ppCaramel Coloring+9.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Whole Grain Oat Flour products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Red 40
25.3pp
Blue 1
21.9pp
Yellow 6
21.4pp
Yellow 5
18.1pp
Caramel Coloring
9.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Whole Grain Oat Flour products Share of all products
Red 40 382 30.7% 5.4%
Blue 1 325 26.1% 4.2%
Yellow 6 308 24.8% 3.4%
Yellow 5 285 22.9% 4.8%
Caramel Coloring 186 15% 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 Oat Flour

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 Oat Flour
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 “Organic Coconut Sugar”)

Top-decile company for Whole Grain Oat Flour: 1,243 listings averaging 70.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Coconut Sugar · Lemon Peel · Made From Corn.

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.

What to do with this Whole Grain Oat Flour record

Start from Whole Grain Oat Flour's 1,243 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 Oat Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read safety signals when Whole Grain Oat Flour sits in heavily flagged products?

55.5% 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 Grain Oat Flour is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Grain Oat Flour?

Whole Grain Oat Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#576 of 247,206), appearing in 1,243 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 Oat Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Grain Oat Flour appears in 1,243 products (#576 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Grain Oat Flour). 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.