Bourbon
Bourbon appears in 211 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
Bourbon appears in 211 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.
- 211
- catalogued products
- #1,877
- usage rank of 247,206
- 92
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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: 71 of 211 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A. smith bowman distillery, barrel-aged bourbon hot sauce; All Natural Bourbon Chocolatier Sauce; Bacon Jam to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Bourbon itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
71 of 211 linked records have some flagged component
All 209 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
Bourbon: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,877 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,877
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 9 others that also appear in exactly 211 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 211 products listing it (mean slot 13.8). Bourbon 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Bourbon
Across the 211 products on this site that list Bourbon, 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 3.8x more often with Bourbon than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Bourbon products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 46 | 21.8% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 11 | 5.2% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 9 | 4.3% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 5 | 2.4% | 1.3% |
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 Bourbon
Products Containing Bourbon
16 busy labels from the 211 indexed products that list Bourbon:
Bourbon vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Bourbon sits among other busy catalog rows (211 products, mean score 97.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Acidity Regulators; Leek; Mandarin Oranges. 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.
What to do with this Bourbon record
Start from Bourbon's 211 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Bourbon before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Bourbon
Does Bourbon 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 Bourbon. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Bourbon? ▼
Bourbon ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,877 of 247,206), appearing in 211 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Bourbon so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Bourbon appears in 211 products (#1,877 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Bourbon). 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.