Meat Sauce
Meat Sauce appears in 23 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 Sauce appears in 23 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.
- 23
- catalogued products
- #8,512
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 9%
- 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
52.2% 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 Sauce as the trigger. Open records such as Italian style entrees, meat sauce gemelli; Italiano lasagna; Italiano Meat Lasagna Frozen Meal to Share and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 94.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 9% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
52.2% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 22 of 23 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 Sauce - usage rank #8,512
- Usage rank
- #8,512
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 274 others that also appear in exactly 23 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 9%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 23 products listing it (mean slot 3.9). Meat Sauce 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.
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 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 Sauce
Products Containing Meat Sauce
High-volume slice (16 of 23) for products naming Meat Sauce:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Meat Sauce: 23 products, mean screening score 94.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Meat Sauce record
23 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Meat Sauce are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Meat Sauce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the 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 Sauce sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
52.2% 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 Sauce is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Meat Sauce? ▼
Meat Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,512 of 247,206), appearing in 23 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Meat Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Meat Sauce appears in 23 products (#8,512 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Meat Sauce). 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.