Mesquite Smoke
Mesquite Smoke appears in 39 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
Mesquite Smoke appears in 39 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.
- 39
- catalogued products
- #5,893
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 12 of 39 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare All Natural Jambalaya; Bacon Wrapped Filet Of Beef; Cape cod, kettle cooked potato chips, sweet mesquite barbeque to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Mesquite Smoke itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
12 of 39 linked records have some flagged component
All 39 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 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.
High-volume listing for Mesquite Smoke - usage rank #5,893
- Usage rank
- #5,893
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 113 others that also appear in exactly 39 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Mean relative depth 67% across 39 parsed labels, slot 13.3 on average. Mesquite Smoke 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Mesquite Smoke
Across the 39 products on this site that list Mesquite Smoke, 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 6.4x more often with Mesquite Smoke than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Mesquite Smoke products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 15.4% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 12.8% | 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 Mesquite Smoke
Products Containing Mesquite Smoke
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 39 indexed products containing Mesquite Smoke:
Mesquite Smoke vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Mesquite Smoke sits among other busy catalog rows (39 products, mean score 96.4/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Mesquite Smoke page
Start from Mesquite Smoke's 39 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Mesquite Smoke to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Mesquite Smoke
Does Mesquite Smoke carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Mesquite Smoke. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Mesquite Smoke? ▼
Mesquite Smoke ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,893 of 247,206), appearing in 39 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Mesquite Smoke so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Mesquite Smoke appears in 39 products (#5,893 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Mesquite Smoke). 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.