Wholewheat Flour

Wholewheat Flour appears in 8 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

Wholewheat Flour appears in 8 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.

8
catalogued products
#17,814
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
40%
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.

Wholewheat Flour: top-decile catalog footprint (#17,814 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#17,814
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
40%
Mean relative depth 40% across 8 parsed labels, slot 5.4 on average. Wholewheat Flour tends to sit in the upper half of the 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

A clean co-occurrence count is not a safety clearance

No linked product currently contains a separately flagged ingredient, but zero co-occurrence is an absence-of-evidence result, not regulatory approval. The practical reading is about use: Wholewheat Flour reaches 4 named brands, most often appears under Snacks, and typically sits in the upper half of the list. Product examples include Digestives roll wrap; Fig & Flax; Peter's Yard Original Sourdough Crackers. Check the current label and authoritative source databases when the decision involves allergies, dosage, pregnancy, or a medical condition.

0% of linked products currently carry a separately flagged ingredient

Most NOVA-tagged examples land in Group 4 (4 of 7), yet the products span unrelated categories. That contrast matters: processing class can describe how a food was made while saying nothing decisive about this ingredient's regulatory status. Use the linked examples to understand formulation context, and leave the unanswered toxicology or individual-sensitivity question unanswered.

Next check: verify the unresolved source rating directly instead of converting zero co-flags into reassurance.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 8 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 Wholewheat 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 8 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 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Wholewheat Flour Digestives roll wrapFig & FlaxPeter's Yard Original Sourdough CrackersPeter's yard, original sourdough crispbreadSourdough CrispbreadWhole Wheat GnocchiSourdough crispbreadWhole grain taco size flour tortillas, whole grain
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.

High-volume peers for Wholewheat Flour

Wholewheat Flour sits among other busy catalog rows (8 products, mean score 100/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Wholewheat Flour page

Start from Wholewheat Flour's 8 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Wholewheat Flour to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

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

Wholewheat Flour — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Wholewheat Flour?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Wholewheat Flour, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#17,814 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Wholewheat Flour?

Wholewheat Flour ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 8 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Wholewheat Flour so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Wholewheat Flour appears in 8 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wholewheat 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.