Cooked Pasta
Cooked Pasta appears in 250 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 Pasta appears in 250 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.
- 250
- catalogued products
- #1,693
- usage rank of 247,206
- 69
- named brands represented
- 14%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 70 of 250 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 48 Oz; A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese; Aged White Cheddar Macaroni & Cheese to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Cooked Pasta itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
70 of 250 linked records have some flagged component
All 246 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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 Pasta sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,693 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,693
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 250 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 14%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 250 products listing it (mean slot 6.6). Cooked Pasta usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Pasta
Across the 250 products on this site that list Cooked Pasta, 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 3.6x more often with Cooked Pasta than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cooked Pasta products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 41 | 16.4% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 28 | 11.2% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 3.2% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 5 | 2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 5 | 2% | 1.1% |
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 Pasta
Products Containing Cooked Pasta
16 busy labels from the 250 indexed products that list Cooked Pasta:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Blackberry Puree”)
Cooked Pasta sits among other busy catalog rows (250 products, mean score 97.4/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Blackberry Puree; Concentrated Black Carrot Juice; Lemon Powder. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Cooked Pasta page
Use the 250-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Cooked Pasta and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- 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.
Cooked Pasta — common follow-ups
Does Cooked Pasta 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 Pasta. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Pasta? ▼
Cooked Pasta ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,693 of 247,206), appearing in 250 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cooked Pasta so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Pasta appears in 250 products (#1,693 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Pasta). 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.