Duck Fat

Duck Fat appears in 18 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

Duck Fat appears in 18 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.

18
catalogued products
#10,099
usage rank of 247,206
8
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 6 of 18 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chicken Liver Mousse With Roasted Red Peppers; Duck Foie Gras Mousse With Port Wine; Duck rillettes duck breast pate to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to Duck Fat itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meats and their products supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

6 of 18 linked records have some flagged component

All 16 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 85–100 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.

Duck Fat: top-decile catalog footprint (#10,099 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#10,099
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 399 others that also appear in exactly 18 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
35%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 18 products listing it (mean slot 8.6). Duck Fat usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.

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.

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 Duck Fat

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 80859095100105 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Duck Fat
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

High-volume peers for Duck Fat: 18 products, mean screening score 97.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

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

Using the Duck Fat evidence

Start from Duck Fat's 18 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Duck Fat 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. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Which product shelves show up most often with Duck Fat?

Duck Fat ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,099 of 247,206), appearing in 18 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Duck Fat so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Duck Fat appears in 18 products (#10,099 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Duck Fat). 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.