Beef Flavor Base
Beef Flavor Base appears in 11 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 Flavor Base appears in 11 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.
- 11
- catalogued products
- #14,190
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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
54.5% 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 Flavor Base as the trigger. Open records such as Beef Enchilada Dinner; Bunkhouse Braised beef Stew; Cheese Enchilada Dinner and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 84.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 51% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
54.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 11 of 11 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 Beef Flavor Base - usage rank #14,190
- Usage rank
- #14,190
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 11 products listing it (mean slot 28.2). Beef Flavor Base usually falls in the lower 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 11 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 Flavor Base
Products Containing Beef Flavor Base
11 busy labels from the 11 indexed products that list Beef Flavor Base:
Beef Flavor Base vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Beef Flavor Base sits among other busy catalog rows (11 products, mean score 84.1/100). 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 Beef Flavor Base evidence
Use the 11-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 Flavor Base to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Beef Flavor Base — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Beef Flavor Base sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
54.5% 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 Flavor Base is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Beef Flavor Base? ▼
Beef Flavor Base ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Beef Flavor Base so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Beef Flavor Base appears in 11 products (#14,190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Beef Flavor Base). 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.