Cooked Sausage

Cooked Sausage appears in 55 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 Sausage appears in 55 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.

55
catalogued products
#4,670
usage rank of 247,206
14
named brands represented
35%
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

Audit the co-occurring flags first

52.7% 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 Sausage as the trigger. Open records such as Bob evans, country gravy, sausage & potatoes bowl; Bob evans, sausage & potatoes; Breakfast burrito and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 91.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 35% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

52.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 49 of 55 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 Sausage sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,670 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#4,670
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 61 others that also appear in exactly 55 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
35%
Averaged label depth puts Cooked Sausage in the upper half of the list (35% of list length, mean slot 16.7). 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 Sausage

Across the 55 products on this site that list Cooked 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 4.8x more often with Cooked Sausage than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +21.6ppCaramel Coloring+21.6ppSodium Nitrite: +15.8ppSodium Nitrite+15.8ppBHT: +9.8ppBHT+9.8ppBHA: +8.4ppBHA+8.4pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cooked Sausage products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
21.6pp
Sodium Nitrite
15.8pp
BHT
9.8pp
BHA
8.4pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cooked Sausage products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 15 27.3% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 10 18.2% 2.4%
BHT 6 10.9% 1.1%
BHA 5 9.1% 0.7%

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 Sausage

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 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cooked Sausage
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Organic Grass Fed Beef”)

Cooked Sausage sits among other busy catalog rows (55 products, mean score 91.8/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Organic Grass Fed Beef; Acai Juice; Added As Preservatives. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Next steps from the Cooked Sausage page

55 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cooked Sausage are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Cooked Sausage to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Place Cooked Sausage next to “Acai Juice” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read safety signals when Cooked Sausage sits in heavily flagged products?

52.7% 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 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 Sausage?

Cooked Sausage ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,670 of 247,206), appearing in 55 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cooked Sausage so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Sausage appears in 55 products (#4,670 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked 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.