Meat Ingredients
Meat Ingredients appears in 149 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 Ingredients appears in 149 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.
- 149
- catalogued products
- #2,376
- usage rank of 247,206
- 33
- named brands represented
- 2%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
85.2% 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 Ingredients as the trigger. Open records such as 10 Original Franks; 6 super jumbo franks; 8 jumbo franks and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 2% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
85.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 146 of 149 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.
High-volume listing for Meat Ingredients - usage rank #2,376
- Usage rank
- #2,376
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 8 others that also appear in exactly 149 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 2%
- Mean relative depth 2% across 149 parsed labels, slot 1.6 on average. Meat Ingredients 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Meat Ingredients
Across the 149 products on this site that list Meat Ingredients, 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 25.7x more often with Meat Ingredients than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Meat Ingredients products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 92 | 61.7% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 32 | 21.5% | 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 Ingredients
Products Containing Meat Ingredients
16 busy labels from the 149 indexed products that list Meat Ingredients:
High-volume peers for Meat Ingredients beside “0% Dv”
Meat Ingredients sits among other busy catalog rows (149 products, mean score 89/100). Nearest count peers include “0% Dv”, “Cultured Pasteurized Whole Milk”, “Enzyme Modified Soy Protein”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
What to do with this Meat Ingredients record
Start from Meat Ingredients's 149 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Meat Ingredients to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare Meat Ingredients with a peer such as “0% Dv” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Meat Ingredients — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Meat Ingredients sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
85.2% 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 Ingredients is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Meat Ingredients? ▼
Meat Ingredients ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,376 of 247,206), appearing in 149 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 Ingredients so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Meat Ingredients appears in 149 products (#2,376 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Meat Ingredients). 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.