Cooked Macaroni
Cooked Macaroni appears in 91 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 Macaroni appears in 91 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.
- 91
- catalogued products
- #3,352
- usage rank of 247,206
- 30
- named brands represented
- 7%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 30 of 91 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, organic macaroni & cheese; American chop suey; American Chop Suey to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Cooked Macaroni itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
30 of 91 linked records have some flagged component
All 89 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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 Macaroni: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,352 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,352
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 91 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 7%
- Averaged label depth puts Cooked Macaroni near the top of the captured list (7% of list length, mean slot 4.1). 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 Macaroni
Across the 91 products on this site that list Cooked Macaroni, 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 4.2x more often with Cooked Macaroni than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked Macaroni products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 17 | 18.7% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 6 | 6.6% | 1.3% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 5.5% | 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 Macaroni
Products Containing Cooked Macaroni
High-volume slice (16 of 91) for products naming Cooked Macaroni:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “28g”)
High-volume peers for Cooked Macaroni: 91 products, mean screening score 97.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 28g · 30g · Acetate. 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 Macaroni evidence
Start from Cooked Macaroni's 91 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 Macaroni to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Cooked Macaroni with a peer such as “28g” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Cooked Macaroni — common follow-ups
Does Cooked Macaroni 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 Macaroni. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Macaroni? ▼
Cooked Macaroni ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,352 of 247,206), appearing in 91 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked Macaroni so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Macaroni appears in 91 products (#3,352 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Macaroni). 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.