Beef
Beef appears in 8,114 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
Beef appears in 8,114 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.
- 8,114
- catalogued products
- #141
- usage rank of 293,342
- 1,890
- named brands represented
- 22%
- 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.
Where Beef sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #141
- of 293,342 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 22%
- Of the way down the list, averaged across the 8,120 products listing it (mean slot 10.0). Ingredient lists run in descending order by weight, so Beef usually falls near the top of the list, so it is typically one of the larger components by weight.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 293,342 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How common is Beef vs other flagged additives?
Number of indexed products containing each of the most common flagged additives - Beef highlighted.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
62.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Beef as the trigger. Open records such as 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 1/4 Pound Beef Franks; 10 Beef Franks and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 86.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 22% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 7061 of 7923 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Products Containing Beef
A sample of 16 of the 8,114 indexed products containing Beef, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Beef safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Beef, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Beef? ▼
Beef is found in 8,114 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Beef do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Beef. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.