Barbecue Sauce
Barbecue Sauce appears in 95 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
Barbecue Sauce appears in 95 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.
- 95
- catalogued products
- #3,244
- usage rank of 248,027
- 37
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
77.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Barbecue Sauce as the trigger. Open records such as Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbeque Sauce; Baby Back Ribs; Baby Back Ribs Fully Cooked Pork Ribs With Barbeque Sauce and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 91.0/100 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 95 of 95 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.
Where Barbecue Sauce sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #3,244
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 25 others that also appear in exactly 95 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 22%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 95 products listing it (mean slot 10.1). Barbecue Sauce usually falls near the top of the captured 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. 248,027 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 Barbecue Sauce
Across the 95 products on this site that list Barbecue Sauce, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 12.9x more often with Barbecue Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Barbecue Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 70 | 73.7% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 9.5% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 5 | 5.3% | 0.7% |
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, 2026-08-02.
Products Containing Barbecue Sauce
A sample of 16 of the 95 indexed products containing Barbecue Sauce, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Barbecue Sauce safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Barbecue Sauce, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Barbecue Sauce? ▼
Barbecue Sauce is found in 95 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Barbecue Sauce do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Barbecue Sauce. 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 August 2026.
