Turkey
Turkey appears in 1,191 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
Turkey appears in 1,191 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.
- 1,191
- catalogued products
- #596
- usage rank of 247,206
- 321
- named brands represented
- 12%
- 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: 486 of 1191 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% all natural turkey meatballs in tomato sauce; 100% naturally wood smoked fresh turkey kielbasa; 65% less fat seasoned turkey burgers to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Turkey 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.
486 of 1,191 linked records have some flagged component
All 1139 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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.
High-volume listing for Turkey - usage rank #596
- Usage rank
- #596
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 12%
- Averaged label depth puts Turkey near the top of the captured list (12% of list length, mean slot 5.4). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Turkey
Across the 1,191 products on this site that list Turkey, 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 Turkey than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Turkey products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 252 | 21.2% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 173 | 14.5% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 119 | 10% | 5.7% |
| BHT | 65 | 5.5% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 61 | 5.1% | 0.7% |
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 Turkey
Products Containing Turkey
16 busy labels from the 1,191 indexed products that list Turkey:
High-volume peers for Turkey beside “Turkey Breast”
High-volume peers for Turkey: 1,191 products, mean screening score 93.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Turkey Breast · Calcium Stearate · Orange. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
What to do with this Turkey record
1,191 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Turkey are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Turkey and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Turkey
Does Turkey 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 Turkey. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Turkey? ▼
Turkey ranks in the top decile by product count (#596 of 247,206), appearing in 1,191 indexed products led by Meats and their products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Turkey so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Turkey appears in 1,191 products (#596 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Turkey). 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.