Cooked Italian Sausage
Cooked Italian Sausage appears in 258 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 Italian Sausage appears in 258 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.
- 258
- catalogued products
- #1,655
- usage rank of 247,206
- 63
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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
69% 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 Italian Sausage as the trigger. Open records such as All natural italian sausage lasagna; Beef Patty Crumble & Premium Deli Style Pepperoni; Big Bowl Marinara, Italian Sausage and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 74.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 50% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
69% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 250 of 258 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 Italian Sausage: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,655 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,655
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 258 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Averaged label depth puts Cooked Italian Sausage in the upper half of the list (50% of list length, mean slot 27.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Cooked Italian Sausage
Across the 258 products on this site that list Cooked Italian Sausage, 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. BHA shows up about 74.7x more often with Cooked Italian Sausage than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked Italian Sausage products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHA | 135 | 52.3% | 0.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 129 | 50% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 129 | 50% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 51 | 19.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 12 | 4.7% | 4.5% |
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 Italian Sausage
Products Containing Cooked Italian Sausage
16 busy labels from the 258 indexed products that list Cooked Italian Sausage:
High-volume peers for Cooked Italian Sausage beside “Beer”
Top-decile company for Cooked Italian Sausage: 258 listings averaging 74.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Beer · Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Lowfat Milk · Dressing.
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.
Using the Cooked Italian Sausage evidence
Start from Cooked Italian Sausage's 258 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cooked Italian Sausage and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Cooked Italian Sausage next to “Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Lowfat Milk” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cooked Italian Sausage
How should I read safety signals when Cooked Italian Sausage sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
69% 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 Italian Sausage is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Italian Sausage? ▼
Cooked Italian Sausage ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,655 of 247,206), appearing in 258 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked Italian Sausage so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Italian Sausage appears in 258 products (#1,655 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Italian Sausage). 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.