Buffalo Sauce
Buffalo Sauce appears in 37 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
Buffalo Sauce appears in 37 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.
- 37
- catalogued products
- #6,126
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
Buffalo Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,126 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,126
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 98 others that also appear in exactly 37 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Mean relative depth 50% across 37 parsed labels, slot 27.4 on average. Buffalo Sauce tends to sit in the upper half of the 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Buffalo Sauce spans 18 named brands and is led by the Sandwiches group. Start with Buffalo Cauliflower Battered Cauliflower Florets In A Spicy Buffalo Sauce, Buffalo Cauliflower; BUFFALO CHICKEN BURRITO; Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
18 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 37 of 37 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 Buffalo Sauce
Across the 37 products on this site that list Buffalo Sauce, 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 19.3x more often with Buffalo Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Buffalo Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 10 | 27% | 1.4% |
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 Buffalo Sauce
Products Containing Buffalo Sauce
16 busy labels from the 37 indexed products that list Buffalo Sauce:
High-volume peers for Buffalo Sauce
Buffalo Sauce sits among other busy catalog rows (37 products, mean score 98.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Buffalo Sauce page
Use the 37-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Buffalo Sauce and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Buffalo Sauce
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Buffalo Sauce? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Buffalo Sauce, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,126 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Buffalo Sauce? ▼
Buffalo Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,126 of 247,206), appearing in 37 indexed products led by Sandwiches. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Buffalo Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Buffalo Sauce appears in 37 products (#6,126 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Buffalo Sauce). 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.