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
- #3,238
- usage rank of 247,206
- 36
- 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.
77.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
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.
High-volume listing for Barbecue Sauce - usage rank #3,238
- Usage rank
- #3,238
- of 247,206 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%
- Averaged label depth puts Barbecue Sauce near the top of the captured list (22% of list length, mean slot 10.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 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, 2026-09-01.
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 Barbecue Sauce
Products Containing Barbecue Sauce
16 busy labels from the 95 indexed products that list Barbecue Sauce:
High-volume peers for Barbecue Sauce beside “Apples And Calcium Ascorbate”
Top-decile company for Barbecue Sauce: 95 listings averaging 91/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Apples And Calcium Ascorbate · Black Bean · Blended Oil.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Barbecue Sauce record
Use the 95-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Barbecue Sauce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Barbecue Sauce next to “Black Bean” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Barbecue Sauce
How should I read safety signals when Barbecue Sauce sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
77.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Barbecue Sauce is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Barbecue Sauce? ▼
Barbecue Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,238 of 247,206), appearing in 95 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Barbecue Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Barbecue Sauce appears in 95 products (#3,238 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Barbecue Sauce). 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.