Yellow Cornmeal
Yellow Cornmeal appears in 147 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 Cornmeal appears in 147 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.
- 147
- catalogued products
- #2,391
- usage rank of 247,206
- 66
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 35 of 147 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 21 Whole Grains And Seeds; 365 everyday value, mini corn dogs; 365 everyday value, organic multigrain & seed bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Yellow Cornmeal itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
35 of 147 linked records have some flagged component
All 139 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 Cornmeal: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,391 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,391
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 147 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 147 products listing it (mean slot 12.3). Yellow Cornmeal usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Cornmeal
Across the 147 products on this site that list Yellow Cornmeal, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 3.7x more often with Yellow Cornmeal than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Yellow Cornmeal products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 13 | 8.8% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 11 | 7.5% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 11 | 7.5% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 6.1% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 5 | 3.4% | 5.4% |
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 Cornmeal
Products Containing Yellow Cornmeal
High-volume slice (16 of 147) for products naming Yellow Cornmeal:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bacon Bits”)
Top-decile company for Yellow Cornmeal: 147 listings averaging 91.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Bacon Bits · Bifidobacterium · Blackberry Juice Concentrate.
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 Cornmeal record
147 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Yellow Cornmeal are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Yellow Cornmeal 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. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Yellow Cornmeal — common follow-ups
Does Yellow Cornmeal 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 Cornmeal. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Yellow Cornmeal? ▼
Yellow Cornmeal ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,391 of 247,206), appearing in 147 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 Cornmeal so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Yellow Cornmeal appears in 147 products (#2,391 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Yellow Cornmeal). 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.