Pork Belly
Pork Belly appears in 38 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 Belly appears in 38 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.
- 38
- catalogued products
- #6,007
- usage rank of 247,206
- 16
- named brands represented
- 27%
- 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
50% 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 Belly as the trigger. Open records such as Applewood Uncured Bacon; Black bear, traditional italian style bacon pancetta; BLT with Beechwood Smoked Bacon and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 91.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 27% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 23 of 34 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.
Pork Belly sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,007 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,007
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 118 others that also appear in exactly 38 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 27%
- Averaged label depth puts Pork Belly in the upper half of the list (27% of list length, mean slot 10.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 Belly
Across the 38 products on this site that list Pork Belly, 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 16.5x more often with Pork Belly than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pork Belly products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 15 | 39.5% | 2.4% |
| Sodium Nitrate | 5 | 13.2% | 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 Belly
Products Containing Pork Belly
16 busy labels from the 38 indexed products that list Pork Belly:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
High-volume peers for Pork Belly: 38 products, mean screening score 91.6/100. 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.
Using the Pork Belly evidence
Start from Pork Belly's 38 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Pork Belly 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. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
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 Pork Belly sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50% 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 Belly is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pork Belly? ▼
Pork Belly ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,007 of 247,206), appearing in 38 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 Belly so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pork Belly appears in 38 products (#6,007 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pork Belly). 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.