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
- #1,879
- usage rank of 248,027
- 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.
How to use this page
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.
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.
Where Bourbon sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #1,879
- of 248,027 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.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
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, 2026-08-02.
Products Containing Bourbon
A sample of 16 of the 211 indexed products containing Bourbon, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Bourbon safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Bourbon, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Bourbon? ▼
Bourbon is found in 211 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Bourbon do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Bourbon. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
