Ground Chicken
Ground Chicken appears in 60 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
Ground Chicken appears in 60 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.
- 60
- catalogued products
- #4,772
- usage rank of 293,342
- 33
- named brands represented
- 23%
- 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 Ground Chicken sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #4,772
- of 293,342 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 41 others that also appear in exactly 60 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 23%
- Of the way down the list, averaged across the 60 products listing it (mean slot 4.2). Ingredient lists run in descending order by weight, so Ground Chicken usually falls near the top of the list, so it is typically one of the larger components by weight.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 293,342 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How common is Ground Chicken vs other flagged additives?
Number of indexed products containing each of the most common flagged additives - Ground Chicken highlighted.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ground Chicken spans 33 named brands and is led by the Meats and their products group. Start with Apple Chicken Power Blend; BANQUET Chicken Broccoli Pot Pie, 7 OZ; Breakfast & Dinner Variety Pack when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 25 of 52 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.
Products Containing Ground Chicken
A sample of 16 of the 60 indexed products containing Ground Chicken, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Ground Chicken safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ground Chicken, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Ground Chicken? ▼
Ground Chicken is found in 60 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Ground Chicken do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Ground Chicken. 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 July 2026.
