Cooked Chicken

Cooked Chicken appears in 562 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 Chicken appears in 562 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.

562
catalogued products
#980
usage rank of 247,206
156
named brands represented
38%
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: 230 of 562 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, chicken taquitos; Aged Cheddar Cheesy Chicken & Rice Bowl; Alfredo Lasagna with Chicken to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cooked Chicken itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

230 of 562 linked records have some flagged component

All 552 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.

Cooked Chicken: top-decile catalog footprint (#980 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#980
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 565 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
38%
Mean relative depth 38% across 565 parsed labels, slot 15.7 on average. Cooked Chicken 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 Chicken

Across the 562 products on this site that list Cooked Chicken, 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 5.1x more often with Cooked Chicken than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +18.6ppCarrageenan+18.6ppCaramel Coloring: +9.8ppCaramel Coloring+9.8ppBHT: +1.7ppBHT+1.7ppYellow 5: -2.5ppYellow 5-2.5ppYellow 6: -1.3ppYellow 6-1.3pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cooked Chicken products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
18.6pp
Caramel Coloring
9.8pp
BHT
1.7pp
Yellow 5
-2.5pp
Yellow 6
-1.3pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cooked Chicken products Share of all products
Carrageenan 130 23.1% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 87 15.5% 5.7%
BHT 16 2.8% 1.1%
Yellow 5 13 2.3% 4.8%
Yellow 6 12 2.1% 3.4%

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 Chicken

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cooked Chicken
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Cooked Chicken vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Cooked Chicken: 562 listings averaging 95.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Invert Sugar Syrup; Fennel; Partially Hydrogenated Soybean.

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 Chicken evidence

Use the 562-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 Cooked Chicken to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Cooked Chicken 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 Chicken. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Chicken?

Cooked Chicken ranks in the top decile by product count (#980 of 247,206), appearing in 562 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cooked Chicken so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Chicken appears in 562 products (#980 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Chicken). 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.