Beef Collagen Casing
Beef Collagen Casing appears in 131 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 Collagen Casing appears in 131 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.
- 131
- catalogued products
- #2,592
- usage rank of 247,206
- 61
- named brands represented
- 98%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 40 of 131 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Andouille Chicken Sausages; Apple & Gouda Chicken Sausages; Apple & Gouda Chicken Sausages to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 30–100 score range to Beef Collagen Casing itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Meats and their products supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
40 of 131 linked records have some flagged component
All 115 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 30–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
High-volume listing for Beef Collagen Casing - usage rank #2,592
- Usage rank
- #2,592
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 131 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 98%
- Mean relative depth 98% across 131 parsed labels, slot 15.1 on average. Beef Collagen Casing tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Beef Collagen Casing
Across the 131 products on this site that list Beef Collagen Casing, 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 9.9x more often with Beef Collagen Casing than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Beef Collagen Casing products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 31 | 23.7% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 8 | 6.1% | 0.7% |
| Propyl Gallate | 6 | 4.6% | 0.2% |
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 Beef Collagen Casing
Products Containing Beef Collagen Casing
16 busy labels from the 131 indexed products that list Beef Collagen Casing:
High-volume peers for Beef Collagen Casing beside “Apple Pectin”
Beef Collagen Casing sits among other busy catalog rows (131 products, mean score 94.1/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Apple Pectin · Cocoa Extract · Cornflour. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Using the Beef Collagen Casing evidence
Use the 131-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 Beef Collagen Casing to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Beef Collagen Casing with a peer such as “Apple Pectin” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Beef Collagen Casing
Does Beef Collagen Casing carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Beef Collagen Casing. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Beef Collagen Casing? ▼
Beef Collagen Casing ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,592 of 247,206), appearing in 131 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Beef Collagen Casing so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Beef Collagen Casing appears in 131 products (#2,592 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Beef Collagen Casing). 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.