Boneless
Boneless appears in 344 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
Boneless appears in 344 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.
- 344
- catalogued products
- #1,343
- usage rank of 247,206
- 75
- named brands represented
- 9%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Boneless - usage rank #1,343
- Usage rank
- #1,343
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 344 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 9%
- Mean relative depth 9% across 344 parsed labels, slot 5.1 on average. Boneless tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Boneless spans 75 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Air chilled boneless chicken breast; Air Fried Chicken Breast Strips; All Natural Chicken Tikka Masala when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
75 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 290 of 320 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Boneless
Across the 344 products on this site that list Boneless, 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 Boneless than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Boneless products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 33 | 9.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 18 | 5.2% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 16 | 4.7% | 1.3% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 2.6% | 2.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 6 | 1.7% | 2.1% |
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 Boneless
Products Containing Boneless
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 344 indexed products containing Boneless:
Boneless vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Boneless sits among other busy catalog rows (344 products, mean score 97.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Turmeric Powder; Vit. C; Lactobacillus Acidophilus. 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.
Next steps from the Boneless page
Start from Boneless's 344 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Boneless before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Boneless next to “Vit. C” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Boneless
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Boneless? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Boneless, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,343 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Boneless? ▼
Boneless ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,343 of 247,206), appearing in 344 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Boneless so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Boneless appears in 344 products (#1,343 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Boneless). 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.