Chicken Skin
Chicken Skin appears in 132 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 Skin appears in 132 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.
- 132
- catalogued products
- #2,578
- usage rank of 247,206
- 49
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 45 of 132 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Andouille Chicken Smoked Sausage; Any'tizers cheddar & sour cream flavored chicken chips; BANQUET Homestyle Bakes Chicken Dumpling, 25.7 OZ to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Chicken Skin 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.
45 of 132 linked records have some flagged component
All 131 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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 Skin: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,578 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,578
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 132 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Mean relative depth 48% across 132 parsed labels, slot 19.9 on average. Chicken Skin 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Chicken Skin
Across the 132 products on this site that list Chicken Skin, 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 2.4x more often with Chicken Skin than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chicken Skin products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 13.6% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 10 | 7.6% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 7 | 5.3% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 7 | 5.3% | 1.1% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 5 | 3.8% | 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 Skin
Products Containing Chicken Skin
16 busy labels from the 132 indexed products that list Chicken Skin:
High-volume peers for Chicken Skin beside “Bioengineered Food Ingredients”
Top-decile company for Chicken Skin: 132 listings averaging 94.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bioengineered Food Ingredients; Black Currant; Canola Oils.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Chicken Skin record
Use the 132-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Chicken Skin before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Chicken Skin next to “Black Currant” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Chicken Skin
Does Chicken Skin 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 Skin. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chicken Skin? ▼
Chicken Skin ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,578 of 247,206), appearing in 132 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chicken Skin so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chicken Skin appears in 132 products (#2,578 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chicken Skin). 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.