Turkey Thigh Meat

Turkey Thigh Meat appears in 31 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 Thigh Meat appears in 31 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.

31
catalogued products
#6,896
usage rank of 247,206
17
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.

How to use this page

Audit the co-occurring flags first

77.4% 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 Thigh Meat as the trigger. Open records such as Bacon Wrapped With Italian Sausage Stuffing Turducken Roast; Cured turkey ham thigh meat; Foodhold, turkey pastrami and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 88.2/100 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.

77.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 27 of 31 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 Thigh Meat: top-decile catalog footprint (#6,896 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#6,896
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 153 others that also appear in exactly 31 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
11%
Mean relative depth 11% across 31 parsed labels, slot 5.3 on average. Turkey Thigh Meat tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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 Thigh Meat

Across the 31 products on this site that list Turkey Thigh 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 25.5x more often with Turkey Thigh Meat than in the catalogue at large.

Additive Shared products Share of Turkey Thigh Meat products Share of all products
Sodium Nitrite 19 61.3% 2.4%
Caramel Coloring 5 16.1% 5.7%

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 Thigh 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 60708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Turkey Thigh 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.

Turkey Thigh Meat vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Turkey Thigh Meat: 31 products, mean screening score 88.2/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

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

What to do with this Turkey Thigh Meat record

Use the 31-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Turkey Thigh Meat to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Turkey Thigh Meat — common follow-ups

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

77.4% 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 Thigh 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 Thigh Meat?

Turkey Thigh Meat ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,896 of 247,206), appearing in 31 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 Thigh Meat so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Turkey Thigh Meat appears in 31 products (#6,896 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Turkey Thigh 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.