Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken
Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken appears in 44 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 Mechanically Separated Chicken appears in 44 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.
- 44
- catalogued products
- #5,420
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 45%
- 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: 12 of 44 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chicken & Stars Condensed Soup; Chicken & stars condensed soup; Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Canned foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
12 of 44 linked records have some flagged component
All 44 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 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 Mechanically Separated Chicken sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,420 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,420
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 44 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 45%
- Averaged label depth puts Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken in the upper half of the list (45% of list length, mean slot 14.5). 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 Mechanically Separated Chicken
Across the 44 products on this site that list Cooked Mechanically Separated 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 3.2x more often with Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 18.2% | 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 Mechanically Separated Chicken
Products Containing Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 44 indexed products containing Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken:
Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken sits among other busy catalog rows (44 products, mean score 98.1/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Mechanically Separated Chicken evidence
Start from Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken's 44 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Mechanically Separated 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 Mechanically Separated 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 Mechanically Separated Chicken? ▼
Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,420 of 247,206), appearing in 44 indexed products led by Canned foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Mechanically Separated Chicken appears in 44 products (#5,420 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Mechanically Separated 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.