Yellow corn meal
Yellow corn meal by Aunt Jemima has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is A.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 1
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Cereals and their products
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Yellow corn meal, 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Yellow corn meal sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.
Full Ingredients List
Degerminated yellow corn meal, niacin*, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate*, riboflavin*, folic acid*.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Yellow corn meal: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Aunt Jemima
- Barcode
- 0030000031001
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Yellow corn meal above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Yellow corn meal sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Yellow corn meal's 4/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Yellow corn meal's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.