Cooked
Cooked appears in 62 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
Cooked appears in 62 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.
- 62
- catalogued products
- #4,302
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 22%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 18 of 62 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Balsamic fig vinaigrette; BBQ Chicken Pizza; Blueberry, Banana & Oatmeal to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 80–100 score range to Cooked itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
18 of 62 linked records have some flagged component
All 57 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 80–100 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 Cooked - usage rank #4,302
- Usage rank
- #4,302
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 46 others that also appear in exactly 62 products, listed in more products than 98.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 22%
- Mean relative depth 22% across 62 parsed labels, slot 5.3 on average. Cooked tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Cooked
Across the 62 products on this site that list Cooked, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 3.4x more often with Cooked than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 5 | 8.1% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 8.1% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 8.1% | 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 Cooked
Products Containing Cooked
High-volume slice (16 of 62) for products naming Cooked:
Cooked vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Cooked: 62 products, mean screening score 97.2/100. Nearest count peers include “With Added Calcium”, “Almond Paste”, “Natural Applewood Smoke Flavor”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Cooked evidence
62 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cooked are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Cooked before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Cooked — common follow-ups
Does Cooked 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 Cooked. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked? ▼
Cooked ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,302 of 247,206), appearing in 62 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked appears in 62 products (#4,302 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked). 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.