Barbeque Sauce
Barbeque Sauce appears in 41 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
Barbeque Sauce appears in 41 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.
- 41
- catalogued products
- #5,697
- usage rank of 247,206
- 27
- named brands represented
- 28%
- 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
73.2% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Barbeque Sauce as the trigger. Open records such as Baby Back Pork Ribs With Bbq Sauce; Baked Beans; Barbeque Beef Brisket Sandwiches and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 94.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 28% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
73.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 40 of 41 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.
Barbeque Sauce sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,697 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,697
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 99 others that also appear in exactly 41 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 28%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 41 products listing it (mean slot 15.8). Barbeque Sauce usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Barbeque Sauce
Across the 41 products on this site that list Barbeque 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 12.4x more often with Barbeque Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Barbeque Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 29 | 70.7% | 5.7% |
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 Barbeque Sauce
Products Containing Barbeque Sauce
16 busy labels from the 41 indexed products that list Barbeque Sauce:
High-volume peers for Barbeque Sauce
Barbeque Sauce sits among other busy catalog rows (41 products, mean score 94.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Barbeque Sauce evidence
Start from Barbeque Sauce's 41 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Barbeque Sauce before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Barbeque Sauce — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Barbeque Sauce sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
73.2% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Barbeque Sauce is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Barbeque Sauce? ▼
Barbeque Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,697 of 247,206), appearing in 41 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Barbeque Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Barbeque Sauce appears in 41 products (#5,697 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Barbeque 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.