Worchestershire Sauce
Worchestershire Sauce appears in 23 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
Worchestershire Sauce appears in 23 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.
- 23
- catalogued products
- #8,512
- usage rank of 247,206
- 13
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
60.9% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Worchestershire Sauce as the trigger. Open records such as Bar-B-Q Sauce; Barbeque Sauce, Original; Bbq Sauce and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 96.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 51% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
60.9% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 20 of 23 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.
Worchestershire Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,512 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,512
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 274 others that also appear in exactly 23 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 23 products listing it (mean slot 14.3). Worchestershire Sauce usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 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 Worchestershire Sauce
Products Containing Worchestershire Sauce
16 busy labels from the 23 indexed products that list Worchestershire Sauce:
Worchestershire Sauce vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Worchestershire Sauce: 23 products, mean screening score 96.7/100. 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.
Next steps from the Worchestershire Sauce page
Use the 23-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 Worchestershire Sauce 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. Open a peer record
- 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.
Worchestershire Sauce — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Worchestershire Sauce sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
60.9% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Worchestershire Sauce is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Worchestershire Sauce? ▼
Worchestershire Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,512 of 247,206), appearing in 23 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Worchestershire Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Worchestershire Sauce appears in 23 products (#8,512 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Worchestershire 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.