Pork Fat
Pork Fat appears in 266 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 Fat appears in 266 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.
- 266
- catalogued products
- #1,610
- usage rank of 247,206
- 99
- named brands represented
- 39%
- 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
57.5% 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 Fat as the trigger. Open records such as Amish Style Baked Beans; Amish three varieties of baked beans with pork in a sweet and tangy barbecue sauce; B&M, Baked Beans With Molasses, Pork & Spices, Original and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 39% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 215 of 257 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 Fat: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,610 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,610
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 266 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 39%
- Averaged label depth puts Pork Fat in the upper half of the list (39% of list length, mean slot 15.5). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Pork Fat
Across the 266 products on this site that list Pork Fat, 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 18.5x more often with Pork Fat than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pork Fat products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 118 | 44.4% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 48 | 18% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 46 | 17.3% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 29 | 10.9% | 5.7% |
| Propyl Gallate | 26 | 9.8% | 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 Fat
Products Containing Pork Fat
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 266 indexed products containing Pork Fat:
Pork Fat vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Pork Fat sits among other busy catalog rows (266 products, mean score 85.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Artichokes; Bifidus And L. Casei; Fiber. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Fat page
266 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Pork Fat are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Pork Fat and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Pork Fat — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Pork Fat sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.5% 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 Fat is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pork Fat? ▼
Pork Fat ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,610 of 247,206), appearing in 266 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pork Fat so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pork Fat appears in 266 products (#1,610 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pork Fat). 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.