Chicken Thighs

Chicken Thighs appears in 30 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 Thighs appears in 30 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.

30
catalogued products
#7,050
usage rank of 247,206
17
named brands represented
11%
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: 8 of 30 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs; Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs; Boneless skinless chicken thighs to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Chicken Thighs 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.

8 of 30 linked records have some flagged component

All 26 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 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 Thighs: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,050 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#7,050
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 171 others that also appear in exactly 30 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
11%
Mean relative depth 11% across 30 parsed labels, slot 3.8 on average. Chicken Thighs 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 Thighs

Across the 30 products on this site that list Chicken Thighs, 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 4.7x more often with Chicken Thighs than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Chicken Thighs products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 8 26.7% 5.7%

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 Thighs

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 406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Chicken Thighs
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 Thighs

High-volume peers for Chicken Thighs: 30 products, mean screening score 96.8/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

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 Thighs evidence

Use the 30-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Chicken Thighs to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Chicken Thighs?

Chicken Thighs ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,050 of 247,206), appearing in 30 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 Thighs so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chicken Thighs appears in 30 products (#7,050 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chicken Thighs). 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.