Bacon Fat
Bacon Fat appears in 177 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
Bacon Fat appears in 177 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.
- 177
- catalogued products
- #2,104
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
71.2% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Bacon Fat as the trigger. Open records such as Ahold, bacon & cheddar franks, smoke; Almonds; Baby Bella Mushrooms Stuffed With Cheese & Bacon Bits and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 73% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
71.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 176 of 177 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.
High-volume listing for Bacon Fat - usage rank #2,104
- Usage rank
- #2,104
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 177 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 177 products listing it (mean slot 28.6). Bacon Fat 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 else is usually in the same product as Bacon Fat
Across the 177 products on this site that list Bacon Fat, 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 13.2x more often with Bacon Fat than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bacon Fat products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 56 | 31.6% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 49 | 27.7% | 5.7% |
| TBHQ | 13 | 7.3% | 0.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 13 | 7.3% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 12 | 6.8% | 4.8% |
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 Bacon Fat
Products Containing Bacon Fat
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 177 indexed products containing Bacon Fat:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added For Color”)
High-volume peers for Bacon Fat: 177 products, mean screening score 83.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Added For Color”, “Anhydrous Milkfat”, “And Caraway”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Bacon Fat page
Start from Bacon Fat's 177 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Bacon Fat 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. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Bacon Fat — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Bacon Fat sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
71.2% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Bacon Fat is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bacon Fat? ▼
Bacon Fat ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,104 of 247,206), appearing in 177 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 Bacon Fat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bacon Fat appears in 177 products (#2,104 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bacon Fat). 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.