Cage-free Whole Egg
Cage-free Whole Egg appears in 24 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 Whole Egg appears in 24 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.
- 24
- catalogued products
- #8,251
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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 Cage-free Whole Egg - usage rank #8,251
- Usage rank
- #8,251
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 260 others that also appear in exactly 24 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Mean relative depth 48% across 24 parsed labels, slot 14.0 on average. Cage-free Whole Egg tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cage-free Whole Egg spans 8 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with Chicken & mexican style street corn burrito; Chicken Salad Sandwich (1/2)p; Ciolo Foods, Pimento Cheese Spread when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 16 of 22 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.
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 Cage-free Whole Egg
Products Containing Cage-free Whole Egg
High-volume slice (16 of 24) for products naming Cage-free Whole Egg:
High-volume peers for Cage-free Whole Egg
Cage-free Whole Egg sits among other busy catalog rows (24 products, mean score 99.4/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Cage-free Whole Egg page
Start from Cage-free Whole Egg's 24 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cage-free Whole Egg to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cage-free Whole Egg? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cage-free Whole Egg, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,251 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cage-free Whole Egg? ▼
Cage-free Whole Egg ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,251 of 247,206), appearing in 24 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cage-free Whole Egg so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cage-free Whole Egg appears in 24 products (#8,251 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cage-free Whole Egg). 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.