Meat
Meat appears in 59 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
Meat appears in 59 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.
- 59
- catalogued products
- #4,436
- usage rank of 247,206
- 28
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
55.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Meat as the trigger. Open records such as Aufschnitt's beef jerky bbq; Aufschnitt, beef jerky, teriyaki; Beef Jerky and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 90.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 20% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
55.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 53 of 59 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Meat: top-decile catalog footprint (#4,436 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,436
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 62 others that also appear in exactly 59 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 59 products listing it (mean slot 7.2). Meat usually falls near the top of the captured 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 Meat
Across the 59 products on this site that list Meat, 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 19.1x more often with Meat than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Meat products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 27 | 45.8% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 8.5% | 5.7% |
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 Meat
Products Containing Meat
High-volume slice (16 of 59) for products naming Meat:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Orange Juice From Concentrate”)
Top-decile company for Meat: 59 listings averaging 90.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 100% Orange Juice From Concentrate · Organic Alfalfa Grass · Dried Ancho Pepper.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Meat page
Use the 59-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 Meat to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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
How should I read safety signals when Meat sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
55.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Meat is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Meat? ▼
Meat ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,436 of 247,206), appearing in 59 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Meat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Meat appears in 59 products (#4,436 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Meat). 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.