Cocktail Sauce
Cocktail Sauce appears in 31 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
Cocktail Sauce appears in 31 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.
- 31
- catalogued products
- #6,896
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 21%
- 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: 13 of 31 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Certified Harvest, Cooked Shrimp With Cocktail Sauce; Cocktail Shrimp; Cocktail shrimp with cocktail sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Cocktail Sauce itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
13 of 31 linked records have some flagged component
All 29 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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 Cocktail Sauce - usage rank #6,896
- Usage rank
- #6,896
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 153 others that also appear in exactly 31 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 21%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 31 products listing it (mean slot 4.9). Cocktail Sauce usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Cocktail Sauce
Across the 31 products on this site that list Cocktail Sauce, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 5x more often with Cocktail Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cocktail Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 7 | 22.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 16.1% | 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 Cocktail Sauce
Products Containing Cocktail Sauce
High-volume slice (16 of 31) for products naming Cocktail Sauce:
Cocktail Sauce vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Cocktail Sauce sits among other busy catalog rows (31 products, mean score 97.9/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Cocktail Sauce evidence
31 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cocktail Sauce are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Cocktail Sauce before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Cocktail Sauce 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 Cocktail Sauce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cocktail Sauce? ▼
Cocktail Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,896 of 247,206), appearing in 31 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cocktail Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cocktail Sauce appears in 31 products (#6,896 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cocktail Sauce). 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.