Cooked Turkey

Cooked Turkey appears in 46 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 Turkey appears in 46 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.

46
catalogued products
#5,260
usage rank of 247,206
21
named brands represented
51%
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

67.4% 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 Turkey as the trigger. Open records such as Banquet Family Size Turkey and Homestyle Gravy Frozen Meal, 26 Ounce, 26 OZ; BANQUET Turkey Meal, 9.25 OZ; Boneless Roast Turkey Breast and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 51% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

67.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 44 of 44 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.

High-volume listing for Cooked Turkey - usage rank #5,260

Usage rank
#5,260
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 72 others that also appear in exactly 46 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
51%
Averaged label depth puts Cooked Turkey in the lower half of the list (51% of list length, mean slot 15.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

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 Turkey

Across the 46 products on this site that list Cooked Turkey, 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 9.5x more often with Cooked Turkey than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +48.6ppCaramel Coloring+48.6ppCarrageenan: +17.2ppCarrageenan+17.2ppBHT: +14.1ppBHT+14.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Cooked Turkey 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
48.6pp
Carrageenan
17.2pp
BHT
14.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Cooked Turkey products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 25 54.3% 5.7%
Carrageenan 10 21.7% 4.5%
BHT 7 15.2% 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 Turkey

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 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cooked Turkey
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

Cooked Turkey sits among other busy catalog rows (46 products, mean score 92.9/100). 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 Turkey evidence

Start from Cooked Turkey's 46 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 Turkey to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

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

Questions readers ask about Cooked Turkey

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

67.4% 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 Turkey is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cooked Turkey?

Cooked Turkey ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,260 of 247,206), appearing in 46 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cooked Turkey so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cooked Turkey appears in 46 products (#5,260 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cooked Turkey). 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.