Beef Extract
Beef Extract appears in 579 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 Extract appears in 579 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.
- 579
- catalogued products
- #958
- usage rank of 247,206
- 165
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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
67.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Beef Extract as the trigger. Open records such as 365 everyday value, beef & barley soup; All natural beef broth; Always hand crafted artisan melts philly style cheesesteak and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 94.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 65% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
67.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 566 of 573 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.
Beef Extract sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#958 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #958
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 579 parsed labels, slot 21.8 on average. Beef Extract tends to sit in the lower half of the 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 Extract
Across the 579 products on this site that list Beef Extract, 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 10.7x more often with Beef Extract than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Beef Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 352 | 60.8% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 26 | 4.5% | 1.1% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 24 | 4.1% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 22 | 3.8% | 4.5% |
| BHA | 22 | 3.8% | 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 Beef Extract
Products Containing Beef Extract
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 579 indexed products containing Beef Extract:
Beef Extract vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Beef Extract: 579 products, mean screening score 94.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Casein”, “Organic Sorghum Flour”, “Sunflower Kernels”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Beef Extract evidence
Start from Beef Extract's 579 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Beef Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Beef Extract with a peer such as “Casein” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Extract
How should I read safety signals when Beef Extract sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
67.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Beef Extract is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Beef Extract? ▼
Beef Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#958 of 247,206), appearing in 579 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Beef Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Beef Extract appears in 579 products (#958 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Beef Extract). 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.