Cooked Bacon
Cooked Bacon appears in 111 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 Bacon appears in 111 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.
- 111
- catalogued products
- #2,917
- usage rank of 247,206
- 32
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
96.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Cooked Bacon as the trigger. Open records such as Angus Beef With Cornbread; Artisan Soup; Bacon & Cheddar Sausage and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 77.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 52% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
96.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 110 of 111 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Cooked Bacon: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,917 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,917
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 16 others that also appear in exactly 111 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Averaged label depth puts Cooked Bacon in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 29.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Bacon
Across the 111 products on this site that list Cooked Bacon, 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 33.8x more often with Cooked Bacon than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked Bacon products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 90 | 81.1% | 2.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 14 | 12.6% | 2.1% |
| Carrageenan | 14 | 12.6% | 4.5% |
| TBHQ | 14 | 12.6% | 0.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 9.9% | 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 Bacon
Products Containing Cooked Bacon
16 busy labels from the 111 indexed products that list Cooked Bacon:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Aloe Vera Gel”)
Cooked Bacon sits among other busy catalog rows (111 products, mean score 77.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Aloe Vera Gel · Candelilla Wax · Carrot Extract. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Cooked Bacon page
Start from Cooked Bacon's 111 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cooked Bacon and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Cooked Bacon sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
96.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Cooked Bacon is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Bacon? ▼
Cooked Bacon ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,917 of 247,206), appearing in 111 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked Bacon so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Bacon appears in 111 products (#2,917 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Bacon). 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.