Wild Caught
Wild Caught appears in 14 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
Wild Caught appears in 14 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.
- 14
- catalogued products
- #11,996
- usage rank of 247,206
- 6
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Wild Caught - usage rank #11,996
- Usage rank
- #11,996
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 643 others that also appear in exactly 14 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Mean relative depth 57% across 14 parsed labels, slot 6.5 on average. Wild Caught tends to sit in the lower half of the 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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 7.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Wild Caught spans 6 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with Anchovies Rolled With Capers In Olive Oil; Fillets Of Anchovies In Olive Oil; Flat Anchovies when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
6 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 9 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 14 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 Wild Caught
Products Containing Wild Caught
14 busy labels from the 14 indexed products that list Wild Caught:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Wild Caught: 14 listings averaging 98.9/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Wild Caught evidence
Use the 14-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Wild Caught 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. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Wild Caught
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Wild Caught? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Wild Caught, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#11,996 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Wild Caught? ▼
Wild Caught ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,996 of 247,206), appearing in 14 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Wild Caught so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Wild Caught appears in 14 products (#11,996 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wild Caught). 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.