Cooked Pork

Cooked Pork appears in 56 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 Pork appears in 56 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.

56
catalogued products
#4,615
usage rank of 247,206
20
named brands represented
22%
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: 27 of 56 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Armour, sandwich creations, pulled pork in bbq sauce; Cheese Curd Lasagna with Meat Sauce; Chef Boyardee, Tortellini, Meat Filled Pasta In Tomato & Meat Sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Cooked Pork 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.

27 of 56 linked records have some flagged component

All 56 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.

High-volume listing for Cooked Pork - usage rank #4,615

Usage rank
#4,615
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 54 others that also appear in exactly 56 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
22%
Averaged label depth puts Cooked Pork near the top of the captured list (22% of list length, mean slot 10.0). 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 Pork

Across the 56 products on this site that list Cooked Pork, 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 7.5x more often with Cooked Pork than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Cooked Pork products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 24 42.9% 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 Pork

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 60708090100110 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cooked Pork
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Cooked Pork vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Cooked Pork sits among other busy catalog rows (56 products, mean score 96.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Almond Base · Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture · Beta-carotene For Color. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Cooked Pork evidence

Start from Cooked Pork's 56 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Cooked Pork and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
  • Place Cooked Pork next to “Apples With Calcium Ascorbate To Promote Whiteness And Maintain Texture” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.

Questions readers ask about Cooked Pork

Does Cooked Pork 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 Pork. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Pork?

Cooked Pork ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,615 of 247,206), appearing in 56 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cooked Pork so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Pork appears in 56 products (#4,615 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Pork). 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.