Dark Chicken Meat
Dark Chicken Meat appears in 41 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
Dark Chicken Meat appears in 41 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.
- 41
- catalogued products
- #5,697
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 18%
- 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.
Dark Chicken Meat: top-decile catalog footprint (#5,697 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,697
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 99 others that also appear in exactly 41 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 18%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 41 products listing it (mean slot 7.3). Dark Chicken Meat 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Dark Chicken Meat spans 15 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with Chicken & Balsamic Crafted Plate, Chicken & Balsamic; Chicken & Cheese Chimichanga; Chicken and Monterey Jack Cheese Chimichangas when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
15 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 37 of 40 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Dark Chicken Meat
Products Containing Dark Chicken Meat
16 busy labels from the 41 indexed products that list Dark Chicken Meat:
High-volume peers for Dark Chicken Meat
Dark Chicken Meat sits among other busy catalog rows (41 products, mean score 97.6/100). 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.
What to do with this Dark Chicken Meat record
41 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dark Chicken Meat are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Dark Chicken Meat 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Dark Chicken Meat
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Dark Chicken Meat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Dark Chicken Meat, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,697 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dark Chicken Meat? ▼
Dark Chicken Meat ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,697 of 247,206), appearing in 41 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dark Chicken Meat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dark Chicken Meat appears in 41 products (#5,697 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dark Chicken 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.