Lamb
Lamb appears in 85 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
Lamb appears in 85 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.
- 85
- catalogued products
- #3,525
- usage rank of 247,206
- 32
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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: 42 of 85 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare American Ground Lamb; Authentic gyros slices; Bacon & Cheddar Smoked Sausage to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 85–100 score range to Lamb itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meats and their products supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
42 of 85 linked records have some flagged component
All 80 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.
High-volume listing for Lamb - usage rank #3,525
- Usage rank
- #3,525
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 27 others that also appear in exactly 85 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 85 products listing it (mean slot 11.8). Lamb usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Lamb
Across the 85 products on this site that list Lamb, 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 17.2x more often with Lamb than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lamb products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 35 | 41.2% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 5.9% | 4.5% |
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 Lamb
Products Containing Lamb
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 85 indexed products containing Lamb:
High-volume peers for Lamb beside “Aged Cayenne Pepper”
High-volume peers for Lamb: 85 products, mean screening score 93.1/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Aged Cayenne Pepper · Carotenes · Organic Carrot Concentrate. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Next steps from the Lamb page
Use the 85-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Lamb before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Lamb next to “Carotenes” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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 Lamb 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 Lamb. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lamb? ▼
Lamb ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,525 of 247,206), appearing in 85 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lamb so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lamb appears in 85 products (#3,525 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lamb). 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.