Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat
Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat appears in 12 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
Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat appears in 12 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.
- 12
- catalogued products
- #13,357
- usage rank of 247,206
- 7
- named brands represented
- 65%
- 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 Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat - usage rank #13,357
- Usage rank
- #13,357
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 832 others that also appear in exactly 12 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 65%
- Mean relative depth 65% across 12 parsed labels, slot 21.4 on average. Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat spans 7 named brands and is led by the Canned foods group. Start with Chicken & Dumplings; chicken 'n stars condensed soup; Chicken With Stars Condensed Soup when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
7 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 12 of 12 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 12 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 Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat
Products Containing Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat
High-volume slice (12 of 12) for products naming Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat:
High-volume peers for Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat
Top-decile company for Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat: 12 listings averaging 94.2/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat page
Start from Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat's 12 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#13,357 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat? ▼
Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat ranks in the top decile by product count (#13,357 of 247,206), appearing in 12 indexed products led by Canned foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mechanically Separated Chicken Meat appears in 12 products (#13,357 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mechanically Separated Chicken 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.