Worcester Sauce

Worcester Sauce appears in 7 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

Worcester Sauce appears in 7 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.

7
catalogued products
#17,814
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.

What this page can and cannot answer

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 7 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Bbq Sauce; Braised Beef & Mash; Haioreum, korean style pork bbq sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Worcester Sauce itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

2 of 7 linked records have some flagged component

All 7 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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 Worcester Sauce - usage rank #17,814

Usage rank
#17,814
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,731 others that also appear in exactly 8 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
57%
Averaged label depth puts Worcester Sauce in the lower half of the list (57% of list length, mean slot 21.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 7 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 Worcester Sauce

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 7 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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Worcester Sauce Bbq SauceBraised Beef & MashHaioreum, korean style pork bbq sauceHouse foods, vermont curry soup mix, apple & honeyInstant YakisobaPolli, italian antipasto vegetables and tunaSensational with smoked & roasted salmon fillets
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.

High-volume peers for Worcester Sauce

Top-decile company for Worcester Sauce: 7 listings averaging 98.1/100.

Similar mean product score

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

Using the Worcester Sauce evidence

7 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Worcester Sauce are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Worcester Sauce before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Worcester Sauce

Does Worcester Sauce 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 Worcester Sauce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Worcester Sauce?

Worcester Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#17,814 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Worcester Sauce so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Worcester Sauce appears in 7 products (#17,814 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Worcester Sauce). 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.