Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring
Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring appears in 79 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
Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring appears in 79 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.
- 79
- catalogued products
- #3,681
- usage rank of 247,206
- 27
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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.
Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,681 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,681
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 27 others that also appear in exactly 79 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Averaged label depth puts Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring in the upper half of the list (48% of list length, mean slot 14.3). 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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring spans 27 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Aioli maple bacon; Arizona country kitchen, premium salad dressing, bacon ranch; Bacon & cheddar chicken sausage when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
27 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 79 of 79 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
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 Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring
Products Containing Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 79 indexed products containing Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring:
High-volume peers for Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring beside “Organic Acerola Cherry Extract”
Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring sits among other busy catalog rows (79 products, mean score 97.7/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Acerola Cherry Extract · Calcium Chloride And Citric Acid · Dry Garlic. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring page
Start from Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring's 79 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring 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. Compare a peer
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,681 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring? ▼
Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,681 of 247,206), appearing in 79 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring appears in 79 products (#3,681 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Nitrite. May Also Contain Smoke Flavoring). 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.