Chicken Breasts

Chicken Breasts appears in 34 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 Breasts appears in 34 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.

34
catalogued products
#6,452
usage rank of 247,206
13
named brands represented
1%
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.

Chicken Breasts: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,452 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,452
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 125 others that also appear in exactly 34 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
1%
Averaged label depth puts Chicken Breasts near the top of the captured list (1% of list length, mean slot 1.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 14.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Chicken Breasts spans 13 named brands and is led by the Meats and their products group. Start with Bacon ranch, chicken poppers; Boneless & Skinless Chicken Breasts; Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

13 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 14 of 27 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 Chicken Breasts

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 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Chicken Breasts
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

High-volume peers for Chicken Breasts: 34 products, mean screening score 98.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Chicken Breasts evidence

Use the 34-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Chicken Breasts before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Chicken Breasts?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Chicken Breasts, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,452 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Chicken Breasts?

Chicken Breasts ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,452 of 247,206), appearing in 34 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 Breasts so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chicken Breasts appears in 34 products (#6,452 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chicken Breasts). 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.