Yellow Corn Flakes

Yellow Corn Flakes appears in 10 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

Yellow Corn Flakes appears in 10 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.

10
catalogued products
#15,180
usage rank of 247,206
6
named brands represented
69%
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.

Yellow Corn Flakes sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#15,180 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#15,180
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
69%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 10 products listing it (mean slot 31.3). Yellow Corn Flakes usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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 this page can and cannot answer

Use prevalence before concern

Only 10% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Yellow Corn Flakes spans 6 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Ancient Grains & Seeds Bread; Ancient Multi Grain Bread; Breakfast Bread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 92.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

6 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10 of 10 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 10 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 Yellow Corn Flakes

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 10 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 20406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Yellow Corn Flakes Ancient Grains & Seeds BreadAncient Multi Grain BreadBreakfast BreadEgg saladOat Grain BreadSimply Nature Organic GraintasticThin sliced breadAncient grains breadWhole grain bunsWhole grain buns
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 Yellow Corn Flakes

Top-decile company for Yellow Corn Flakes: 10 listings averaging 92.5/100.

Similar mean product score

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

Using the Yellow Corn Flakes evidence

Start from Yellow Corn Flakes's 10 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Yellow Corn Flakes to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Yellow Corn Flakes

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Yellow Corn Flakes?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Yellow Corn Flakes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#15,180 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow Corn Flakes?

Yellow Corn Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 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 Yellow Corn Flakes so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow Corn Flakes appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow Corn 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.