Crab Meat

Crab Meat appears in 118 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

Crab Meat appears in 118 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.

118
catalogued products
#2,800
usage rank of 247,206
52
named brands represented
13%
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: 28 of 118 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 5 crab cakes; Baltimore crab company, premium pasteurized crab meat; Bite-Size Crab Cakes to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 80–100 score range to Crab Meat itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Seafood supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

28 of 118 linked records have some flagged component

All 109 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 80–100 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.

Crab Meat: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,800 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,800
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 118 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
13%
Averaged label depth puts Crab Meat near the top of the captured list (13% of list length, mean slot 5.6). 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 Crab Meat

Across the 118 products on this site that list Crab Meat, 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 2.7x more often with Crab Meat than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +9.6ppCaramel Coloring+9.6ppCarrageenan: +9.1ppCarrageenan+9.1ppTitanium Dioxide: +2.1ppTitanium Dioxide+2.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Crab Meat 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
9.6pp
Carrageenan
9.1pp
Titanium Dioxide
2.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Crab Meat products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 18 15.3% 5.7%
Carrageenan 16 13.6% 4.5%
Titanium Dioxide 5 4.2% 2.1%

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 Crab Meat

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 Crab Meat
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.

Crab Meat vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Crab Meat sits among other busy catalog rows (118 products, mean score 97.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate · Chipotle Puree · Coffee 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

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

What to do with this Crab Meat record

118 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Crab Meat are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Crab Meat before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Place Crab Meat next to “Chipotle Puree” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Crab Meat?

Crab Meat ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,800 of 247,206), appearing in 118 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Crab Meat so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Crab Meat appears in 118 products (#2,800 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Crab Meat). 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.