Chicken Breast Meat

Chicken Breast Meat appears in 373 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 Breast Meat appears in 373 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.

373
catalogued products
#1,268
usage rank of 247,206
107
named brands represented
13%
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 89 of 373 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare All natural chicken breast in water; Apple & Walnut Salad with Chicken; Applewood Smoked Chicken Breast to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Chicken Breast Meat itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Meats and their products supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

89 of 373 linked records have some flagged component

All 367 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.

High-volume listing for Chicken Breast Meat - usage rank #1,268

Usage rank
#1,268
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 373 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
13%
Mean relative depth 13% across 373 parsed labels, slot 7.0 on average. Chicken Breast Meat tends to sit near the top of the captured 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Chicken Breast Meat

Across the 373 products on this site that list Chicken Breast Meat, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.9x more often with Chicken Breast Meat than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +5ppCaramel Coloring+5ppCarrageenan: +5.2ppCarrageenan+5.2ppSodium Nitrite: +3ppSodium Nitrite+3ppSodium Nitrate: +1.1ppSodium Nitrate+1.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Chicken Breast Meat products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
5pp
Carrageenan
5.2pp
Sodium Nitrite
3pp
Sodium Nitrate
1.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Chicken Breast Meat products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 40 10.7% 5.7%
Carrageenan 36 9.7% 4.5%
Sodium Nitrite 20 5.4% 2.4%
Sodium Nitrate 5 1.3% 0.2%

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 Breast Meat

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 20406080100120 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Chicken Breast Meat
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Chicken Breast Meat beside “Source Of Calcium”

Top-decile company for Chicken Breast Meat: 373 listings averaging 96.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Source Of Calcium”, “Erythorbic Acid”, “Organic High Oleic Safflower Oil”.

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 Breast Meat evidence

Use the 373-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Chicken Breast Meat before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare Chicken Breast Meat with a peer such as “Source Of Calcium” on 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.

Chicken Breast Meat — common follow-ups

Does Chicken Breast Meat 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 Breast Meat. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Chicken Breast Meat?

Chicken Breast Meat ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,268 of 247,206), appearing in 373 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Chicken Breast Meat so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chicken Breast Meat appears in 373 products (#1,268 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chicken Breast Meat). 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.