Chicken Base
Chicken Base appears in 599 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
Chicken Base appears in 599 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.
- 599
- catalogued products
- #937
- usage rank of 247,206
- 179
- named brands represented
- 46%
- 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: 179 of 599 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/2 LA Brea Three Cheese Loaf; Ahold, creamy tomato soup; Amalia's cocina, chili colorado sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Chicken Base itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
179 of 599 linked records have some flagged component
All 594 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.
Chicken Base sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#937 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #937
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 46%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 600 products listing it (mean slot 20.7). Chicken Base 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Chicken Base
Across the 599 products on this site that list Chicken Base, 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 3.3x more often with Chicken Base than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chicken Base products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 89 | 14.9% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 70 | 11.7% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 33 | 5.5% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 10 | 1.7% | 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, 2026-09-01.
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 Chicken Base
Products Containing Chicken Base
16 busy labels from the 599 indexed products that list Chicken Base:
Chicken Base vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Chicken Base sits among other busy catalog rows (599 products, mean score 96.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Added To Prevent Caking”, “Raisin Juice Concentrate”, “Reduced Lactose Whey”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Chicken Base evidence
599 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Chicken Base are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Chicken Base to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Chicken Base carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Chicken Base. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chicken Base? ▼
Chicken Base ranks in the top decile by product count (#937 of 247,206), appearing in 599 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chicken Base so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chicken Base appears in 599 products (#937 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chicken Base). 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.