Pork
Pork appears in 9,633 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
Pork appears in 9,633 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.
- 9,633
- catalogued products
- #123
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,722
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
59.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Pork as the trigger. Open records such as 1 lb. Hot dog; 1 slice hard salami 2 slices mild cheddar cheese; 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 84.6/100 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.
59.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 8302 of 9427 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 Pork - usage rank #123
- Usage rank
- #123
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Mean relative depth 20% across 9,647 parsed labels, slot 9.5 on average. Pork tends to sit near the top of the captured 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 Pork
Across the 9,633 products on this site that list Pork, 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 16.6x more often with Pork than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pork products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 3,843 | 39.9% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 2,040 | 21.2% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 1,805 | 18.7% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 1,139 | 11.8% | 5.7% |
| Propyl Gallate | 554 | 5.8% | 0.2% |
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 Pork
Products Containing Pork
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 9,633 indexed products containing Pork:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Annatto”)
Top-decile company for Pork: 9,633 listings averaging 84.6/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Annatto; Calcium Carbonate; Sodium Nitrite.
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.
Next steps from the Pork page
Use the 9,633-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Pork and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Pork with a peer such as “Annatto” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Pork — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Pork sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
59.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Pork is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pork? ▼
Pork ranks in the top decile by product count (#123 of 247,206), appearing in 9,633 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pork so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pork appears in 9,633 products (#123 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pork). 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.