Turkey Breast Meat

Turkey Breast Meat appears in 394 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 Meat appears in 394 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.

394
catalogued products
#1,213
usage rank of 247,206
66
named brands represented
10%
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

55.3% 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 Meat as the trigger. Open records such as ALL NATURAL SMOKED TURKEY BREAST SLICED; APPLEWOOD SMOKED deli TURKEY; Applewood Smoked Turkey Breast and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 10% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

55.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 313 of 392 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 Meat: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,213 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#1,213
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 394 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
10%
Averaged label depth puts Turkey Breast Meat near the top of the captured list (10% of list length, mean slot 5.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

What else is usually in the same product as Turkey Breast Meat

Across the 394 products on this site that list Turkey Breast Meat, 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 Meat than in the catalogue at large.

Sodium Nitrite: +35.2ppSodium Nitrite+35.2ppCarrageenan: +17.8ppCarrageenan+17.8ppCaramel Coloring: -1.4ppCaramel Coloring-1.4ppSodium Nitrate: +1.6ppSodium Nitrate+1.6pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Turkey Breast Meat products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Sodium Nitrite
35.2pp
Carrageenan
17.8pp
Caramel Coloring
-1.4pp
Sodium Nitrate
1.6pp
Additive Shared products Share of Turkey Breast Meat products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 148 37.6% 2.4%
Carrageenan 88 22.3% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 17 4.3% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrate 7 1.8% 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 Meat

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Turkey Breast Meat
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Corn Masa Flour”)

High-volume peers for Turkey Breast Meat: 394 products, mean screening score 92.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Corn Masa Flour”, “L-carnitine”, “Unbleached Flour”. 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

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Next steps from the Turkey Breast Meat page

Use the 394-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 Meat and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Place Turkey Breast Meat next to “L-carnitine” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.

Turkey Breast Meat — common follow-ups

How should I read safety signals when Turkey Breast Meat sits in heavily flagged products?

55.3% 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 Meat 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 Meat?

Turkey Breast Meat ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,213 of 247,206), appearing in 394 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 Meat so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Turkey Breast Meat appears in 394 products (#1,213 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Turkey Breast Meat). 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.