Hard Cooked Eggs

Hard Cooked Eggs appears in 161 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

Hard Cooked Eggs appears in 161 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.

161
catalogued products
#2,253
usage rank of 247,206
50
named brands represented
41%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 55 of 161 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ahold, deviled egg potato salad; Amish Macaroni Salad; Amish Macaroni Salad to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Hard Cooked Eggs itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Salted-snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

55 of 161 linked records have some flagged component

All 155 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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.

Hard Cooked Eggs sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,253 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#2,253
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 161 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
41%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 161 products listing it (mean slot 18.8). Hard Cooked Eggs 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.

What else is usually in the same product as Hard Cooked Eggs

Across the 161 products on this site that list Hard Cooked Eggs, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 7.5x more often with Hard Cooked Eggs than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +15.6ppSodium Nitrite+15.6ppCarrageenan: +4.2ppCarrageenan+4.2ppPolysorbate 80: +4.9ppPolysorbate 80+4.9ppCaramel Coloring: -0.7ppCaramel Coloring-0.7ppYellow 5: -0.5ppYellow 5-0.5pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Hard Cooked Eggs products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

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

Sodium Nitrite
15.6pp
Carrageenan
4.2pp
Polysorbate 80
4.9pp
Caramel Coloring
-0.7pp
Yellow 5
-0.5pp
Additive Shared products Share of Hard Cooked Eggs products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 29 18% 2.4%
Carrageenan 14 8.7% 4.5%
Polysorbate 80 10 6.2% 1.3%
Caramel Coloring 8 5% 5.7%
Yellow 5 7 4.3% 4.8%

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 Hard Cooked Eggs

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 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Hard Cooked Eggs
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 “Added To Make Free Flowing”)

Hard Cooked Eggs sits among other busy catalog rows (161 products, mean score 94.3/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added To Make Free Flowing; Brewed Organic Black Tea; Less Than 2% Of Sodium Caseinate. 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 Hard Cooked Eggs evidence

Use the 161-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Hard Cooked Eggs to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
  • Place Hard Cooked Eggs next to “Brewed Organic Black Tea” (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. Open methodology

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

Questions readers ask about Hard Cooked Eggs

Does Hard Cooked Eggs 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 Hard Cooked Eggs. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Hard Cooked Eggs?

Hard Cooked Eggs ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,253 of 247,206), appearing in 161 indexed products led by Salted-snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Hard Cooked Eggs so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Hard Cooked Eggs appears in 161 products (#2,253 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hard Cooked Eggs). 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.