Lard
Lard carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 413 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Lard appears in 413 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 413
- catalogued products
- #1,094
- usage rank of 247,206
- 145
- named brands represented
- 42%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Lard - usage rank #1,094
- Usage rank
- #1,094
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 458 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 42%
- Averaged label depth puts Lard in the upper half of the list (42% of list length, mean slot 10.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 182 of 413 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 6 - Layer Dip; 6-layer dip; Almonds Cookies to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 15–100 score range to Lard itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
182 of 413 linked records have some flagged component
All 386 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 15–100 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Lard
Across the 413 products on this site that list Lard, 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. BHT shows up about 16.7x more often with Lard than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lard products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHT | 76 | 18.4% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 73 | 17.7% | 0.7% |
| Caramel Coloring | 45 | 10.9% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 29 | 7% | 1.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 22 | 5.3% | 2.4% |
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.
Function
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, TEXTURIZER
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 Lard
Products Containing Lard
High-volume slice (16 of 413) for products naming Lard:
High-volume peers for Lard beside “Choline Bitartrate”
High-volume peers for Lard: 413 products, mean screening score 87/100. Nearest count peers include “Choline Bitartrate”, “Cooked Chicken Meat”, “Starter Culture”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Lard page
Start from Lard's 413 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lard to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Lard carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Lard itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "GRAS" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lard? ▼
Lard ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,094 of 247,206), appearing in 413 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Lard do in food? ▼
Lard is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, formulation aid, texturizer in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lard). 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.