Cooked Beef
Cooked Beef appears in 369 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 Beef appears in 369 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.
- 369
- catalogued products
- #1,276
- usage rank of 247,206
- 98
- named brands represented
- 26%
- 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
63.7% 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 Beef as the trigger. Open records such as Alberto, Corned Beef; All Purpose Beef Broth, Beef; BAKED ZITI and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 94.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 26% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
63.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 316 of 365 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.
High-volume listing for Cooked Beef - usage rank #1,276
- Usage rank
- #1,276
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 369 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 26%
- Mean relative depth 26% across 369 parsed labels, slot 11.5 on average. Cooked Beef tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Cooked Beef
Across the 369 products on this site that list Cooked Beef, 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 8.8x more often with Cooked Beef than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked Beef products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 186 | 50.4% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 42 | 11.4% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 17 | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| BHT | 17 | 4.6% | 1.1% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 5 | 1.4% | 1.3% |
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 Beef
Products Containing Cooked Beef
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 369 indexed products containing Cooked Beef:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Asparagus”)
High-volume peers for Cooked Beef: 369 products, mean screening score 94.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Asparagus”, “Pyridoxine Hcl”, “Trisodium Citrate”. 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 Beef evidence
369 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cooked Beef are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Cooked Beef before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Cooked Beef next to “Pyridoxine Hcl” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Cooked Beef — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Cooked Beef sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
63.7% 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 Beef is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Beef? ▼
Cooked Beef ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,276 of 247,206), appearing in 369 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked Beef so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Beef appears in 369 products (#1,276 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Beef). 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.