Cage-free Egg Yolks

Cage-free Egg Yolks appears in 50 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

Cage-free Egg Yolks appears in 50 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.

50
catalogued products
#4,978
usage rank of 248,027
16
named brands represented
37%
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.

Where Cage-free Egg Yolks sits among catalogued ingredients

Usage rank
#4,978
of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 50 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
37%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 50 products listing it (mean slot 10.4). Cage-free Egg Yolks 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.

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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 12% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cage-free Egg Yolks spans 16 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Cajun Remoulade; Chicken & mexican style street corn burrito; Chicken Salad Sandwich (1/2)p when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 38 of 48 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 Cage-free Egg Yolks

Across the 50 products on this site that list Cage-free Egg Yolks, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.2x more often with Cage-free Egg Yolks than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Cage-free Egg Yolks products Share of all products
Carrageenan 5 10% 4.5%

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cage-free Egg Yolks safe to eat?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cage-free Egg Yolks, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.

What products contain Cage-free Egg Yolks?

Cage-free Egg Yolks is found in 50 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.

What does Cage-free Egg Yolks do in food?

The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Cage-free Egg Yolks. 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.

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