Chicken Wings
Chicken Wings appears in 32 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 Wings appears in 32 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.
- 32
- catalogued products
- #6,747
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- 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.
High-volume listing for Chicken Wings - usage rank #6,747
- Usage rank
- #6,747
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 148 others that also appear in exactly 32 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 1%
- Averaged label depth puts Chicken Wings near the top of the captured list (1% of list length, mean slot 1.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Chicken Wings spans 14 named brands and is led by the Meats and their products group. Start with Ahold, chicken wings; Buttery Buffalo original Recipe Party Wings; Chicken Wings when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
14 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 19 of 29 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 Wings
Products Containing Chicken Wings
High-volume slice (16 of 32) for products naming Chicken Wings:
High-volume peers for Chicken Wings
High-volume peers for Chicken Wings: 32 products, mean screening score 98.1/100. 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.
Next steps from the Chicken Wings page
Use the 32-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 Wings to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Chicken Wings
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Chicken Wings? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Chicken Wings, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,747 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chicken Wings? ▼
Chicken Wings ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,747 of 247,206), appearing in 32 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 Wings so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chicken Wings appears in 32 products (#6,747 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chicken Wings). 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.