Yellow Corn Masa
Yellow Corn Masa appears in 173 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 Masa appears in 173 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.
- 173
- catalogued products
- #2,133
- usage rank of 247,206
- 82
- named brands represented
- 34%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 43 of 173 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Cajun Blend Trail Mix; Cajun Corn Sticks; Cajun Hot Mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Yellow Corn Masa itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
43 of 173 linked records have some flagged component
All 173 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Yellow Corn Masa sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,133 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,133
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 173 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 34%
- Averaged label depth puts Yellow Corn Masa in the upper half of the list (34% of list length, mean slot 17.0). 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 Yellow Corn Masa
Across the 173 products on this site that list Yellow Corn Masa, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 2x more often with Yellow Corn Masa than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Yellow Corn Masa products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 17 | 9.8% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 14 | 8.1% | 3.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 5.2% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 7 | 4% | 4.2% |
| Carrageenan | 6 | 3.5% | 4.5% |
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 Yellow Corn Masa
Products Containing Yellow Corn Masa
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 173 indexed products containing Yellow Corn Masa:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Acacia Fiber”)
Yellow Corn Masa sits among other busy catalog rows (173 products, mean score 92.6/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Acacia Fiber; As Color; Beetroot Powder. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Yellow Corn Masa record
Use the 173-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Yellow Corn Masa before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Yellow Corn Masa next to “As Color” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Yellow Corn Masa carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Yellow Corn Masa. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow Corn Masa? ▼
Yellow Corn Masa ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,133 of 247,206), appearing in 173 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Yellow Corn Masa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow Corn Masa appears in 173 products (#2,133 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow Corn Masa). 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.