Pork Skins
Pork Skins appears in 76 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 Skins appears in 76 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.
- 76
- catalogued products
- #3,767
- usage rank of 247,206
- 40
- named brands represented
- 9%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 22 of 76 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Bacon Goetta; Bacon's Heir, Fried Pork Skins, Rosemary & Sea Salt; BBQ Flavored Pork Rinds to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Pork Skins itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Meats and their products supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
22 of 76 linked records have some flagged component
All 68 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.
Pork Skins sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,767 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,767
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 34 others that also appear in exactly 76 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 9%
- Mean relative depth 9% across 76 parsed labels, slot 2.2 on average. Pork Skins 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 Skins
Across the 76 products on this site that list Pork Skins, 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 8.8x more often with Pork Skins than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pork Skins products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 16 | 21.1% | 2.4% |
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 Skins
Products Containing Pork Skins
High-volume slice (16 of 76) for products naming Pork Skins:
High-volume peers for Pork Skins beside “Aspartame+”
Top-decile company for Pork Skins: 76 listings averaging 94.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Aspartame+”, “Bacillus Subtilis”, “Batter Mix”.
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.
Using the Pork Skins evidence
76 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Pork Skins are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Pork Skins to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Pork Skins with a peer such as “Aspartame+” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Pork Skins 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 Pork Skins. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pork Skins? ▼
Pork Skins ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,767 of 247,206), appearing in 76 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 Skins so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pork Skins appears in 76 products (#3,767 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pork Skins). 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.