Beer
Beer appears in 251 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
Beer appears in 251 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.
- 251
- catalogued products
- #1,655
- usage rank of 247,206
- 112
- named brands represented
- 36%
- 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: 62 of 251 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare American Pride Seafood, Beer Battered Wild Alaska Pollock Fillets; Angonoa's, Gourmet Style Nuggets, Cheddar & Ale; Artisanal kraut to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Beer itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meats and their products supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
62 of 251 linked records have some flagged component
All 245 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
Beer sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,655 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,655
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 258 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 258 products listing it (mean slot 9.6). Beer 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Beer
Across the 251 products on this site that list Beer, 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 1.7x more often with Beer than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Beer products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 24 | 9.6% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 23 | 9.2% | 0.7% |
| Propyl Gallate | 18 | 7.2% | 0.2% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 3.2% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 7 | 2.8% | 1.1% |
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 Beer
Products Containing Beer
16 busy labels from the 251 indexed products that list Beer:
Beer vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Beer: 251 listings averaging 95.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Concentrated Black Carrot Juice; Lemon Powder; Or Less Salt.
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 Beer record
Start from Beer's 251 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Beer and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Beer
Does Beer 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 Beer. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Beer? ▼
Beer ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,655 of 247,206), appearing in 251 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Beer so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Beer appears in 251 products (#1,655 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Beer). 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.