Cooked Ground Beef
Cooked Ground Beef appears in 74 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 Ground Beef appears in 74 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.
- 74
- catalogued products
- #3,840
- usage rank of 247,206
- 23
- named brands represented
- 29%
- 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: 26 of 74 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare American chop suey; Barilla, sauce, meat; Beef And Vegetables Empanada to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Cooked Ground Beef itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
26 of 74 linked records have some flagged component
All 72 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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 Ground Beef: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,840 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,840
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 74 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 29%
- Mean relative depth 29% across 74 parsed labels, slot 10.9 on average. Cooked Ground 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 Ground Beef
Across the 74 products on this site that list Cooked Ground 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 5x more often with Cooked Ground Beef than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked Ground Beef products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 21 | 28.4% | 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 Ground Beef
Products Containing Cooked Ground Beef
High-volume slice (16 of 74) for products naming Cooked Ground Beef:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Natural Coconut Water”)
High-volume peers for Cooked Ground Beef: 74 products, mean screening score 96.1/100. Nearest count peers include “100% Natural Coconut Water”, “Bha & Bht Added To Protect Flavor”, “Brine”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Cooked Ground Beef record
Start from Cooked Ground Beef's 74 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cooked Ground Beef to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Cooked Ground Beef next to “Bha & Bht Added To Protect Flavor” (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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Cooked Ground Beef 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 Ground Beef. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Ground Beef? ▼
Cooked Ground Beef ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,840 of 247,206), appearing in 74 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked Ground Beef so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Ground Beef appears in 74 products (#3,840 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Ground 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.