Turkey Breast
Turkey Breast appears in 1,182 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 Breast appears in 1,182 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.
- 1,182
- catalogued products
- #597
- usage rank of 247,206
- 269
- named brands represented
- 11%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
61.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Turkey Breast as the trigger. Open records such as 365 everyday value, organic oven roasted turkey breast; 6 Roast Turkey Breast Slices; 99% lean 1% fat fresh ground turkey breast and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 90.9/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 11% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
61.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 984 of 1150 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.
Turkey Breast sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#597 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #597
- 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
- 11%
- Averaged label depth puts Turkey Breast near the top of the captured list (11% of list length, mean slot 5.9). 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 Breast
Across the 1,182 products on this site that list Turkey Breast, 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 15.7x more often with Turkey Breast than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Turkey Breast products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 444 | 37.6% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 436 | 36.9% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 89 | 7.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrate | 23 | 1.9% | 0.2% |
| Azodicarbonamide | 18 | 1.5% | 0.2% |
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 Breast
Products Containing Turkey Breast
High-volume slice (16 of 1,182) for products naming Turkey Breast:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Orange”)
High-volume peers for Turkey Breast: 1,182 products, mean screening score 90.9/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Orange · L-cysteine · Green Bell Peppers. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Turkey Breast evidence
Use the 1,182-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Turkey Breast and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Turkey Breast next to “L-cysteine” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Turkey Breast — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Turkey Breast sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
61.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Turkey Breast is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Turkey Breast? ▼
Turkey Breast ranks in the top decile by product count (#597 of 247,206), appearing in 1,182 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 Breast so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Turkey Breast appears in 1,182 products (#597 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Turkey Breast). 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.