Roast Beef
Roast Beef appears in 35 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
Roast Beef appears in 35 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.
- 35
- catalogued products
- #6,340
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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
71.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Roast Beef as the trigger. Open records such as Deluxe Roast Beef; Deluxe Roast Beef; Our Deli Sandwich and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 93.4/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 24% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
71.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 35 of 35 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 Roast Beef - usage rank #6,340
- Usage rank
- #6,340
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 111 others that also appear in exactly 35 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 24%
- Averaged label depth puts Roast Beef near the top of the captured list (24% of list length, mean slot 11.3). 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 Roast Beef
Across the 35 products on this site that list Roast Beef, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 10.5x more often with Roast Beef than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Roast Beef products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 21 | 60% | 5.7% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 5 | 14.3% | 0.2% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 5 | 14.3% | 1.4% |
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 Roast Beef
Products Containing Roast Beef
High-volume slice (16 of 35) for products naming Roast Beef:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Roast Beef sits among other busy catalog rows (35 products, mean score 93.4/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Roast Beef page
Start from Roast Beef's 35 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Roast Beef and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Roast Beef
How should I read safety signals when Roast Beef sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
71.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Roast Beef is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Roast Beef? ▼
Roast Beef ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,340 of 247,206), appearing in 35 indexed products led by Sandwiches. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Roast Beef so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Roast Beef appears in 35 products (#6,340 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Roast Beef). 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.