Shredded Beef
Shredded Beef appears in 15 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
Shredded Beef appears in 15 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.
- 15
- catalogued products
- #11,449
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 15%
- 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: 5 of 15 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Beef Flautas; Colombian empanadas; Mini Tacos to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 70–100 score range to Shredded Beef itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
5 of 15 linked records have some flagged component
All 15 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 70–100 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.
Shredded Beef sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#11,449 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #11,449
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 546 others that also appear in exactly 15 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 15%
- Averaged label depth puts Shredded Beef near the top of the captured list (15% of list length, mean slot 6.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 15 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 Shredded Beef
Products Containing Shredded Beef
A sample of 15 high-volume listings among the 15 indexed products containing Shredded Beef:
High-volume peers for Shredded Beef
High-volume peers for Shredded Beef: 15 products, mean screening score 95/100. 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.
Next steps from the Shredded Beef page
Start from Shredded Beef's 15 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Shredded Beef 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. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Shredded Beef — common follow-ups
Does Shredded Beef 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 Shredded Beef. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Shredded Beef? ▼
Shredded Beef ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,449 of 247,206), appearing in 15 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Shredded Beef so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Shredded Beef appears in 15 products (#11,449 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Shredded 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.