Jack Mackerel

Jack Mackerel appears in 11 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

Jack Mackerel appears in 11 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.

11
catalogued products
#14,190
usage rank of 247,206
9
named brands represented
17%
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.

Jack Mackerel: top-decile catalog footprint (#14,190 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#14,190
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
17%
Mean relative depth 17% across 11 parsed labels, slot 3.4 on average. Jack Mackerel tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 9.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Jack Mackerel spans 9 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with California girl, mackerel; Jack Mackerel In Tomato Sauce; Mackerel when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

9 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 10 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 11 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 Jack Mackerel

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 11 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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Jack Mackerel California girl, mackerelJack Mackerel In Tomato SauceMackerelMackerel In BrineMackerel In Hot SauceSmoked jack mackerelSoba Soup BaseStraight Somen Noodle Soup BaseSuper Omega-3 Epa/dha Fish Oil, Sesame Lignans & Olive ExtractJack Mackerel in Tomato SauceJack mackerel in water
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.

High-volume peers for Jack Mackerel

Top-decile company for Jack Mackerel: 11 listings averaging 99.5/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Jack Mackerel evidence

Start from Jack Mackerel's 11 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Open the product sample for Jack Mackerel and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
  • 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.

Jack Mackerel — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Jack Mackerel?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Jack Mackerel, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#14,190 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Jack Mackerel?

Jack Mackerel ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Jack Mackerel so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Jack Mackerel appears in 11 products (#14,190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Jack Mackerel). 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.