Curry Paste
Curry Paste appears in 47 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
Curry Paste appears in 47 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.
- 47
- catalogued products
- #5,176
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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 Curry Paste - usage rank #5,176
- Usage rank
- #5,176
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 83 others that also appear in exactly 47 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Averaged label depth puts Curry Paste in the upper half of the list (41% of list length, mean slot 16.8). 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 to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Curry Paste spans 8 named brands and is led by the Frozen foods group. Start with All Natural Chicken Vindaloo; Chicken Cashew Curry with Turmeric Rice; Chicken Coconut Curry when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
8 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 43 of 46 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Curry Paste
Across the 47 products on this site that list Curry Paste, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 2.8x more often with Curry Paste than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Curry Paste products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 6 | 12.8% | 4.5% |
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 Curry Paste
Products Containing Curry Paste
High-volume slice (16 of 47) for products naming Curry Paste:
Curry Paste vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Curry Paste: 47 listings averaging 99.4/100.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Curry Paste record
Start from Curry Paste's 47 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Curry Paste to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- 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. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Curry Paste? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Curry Paste, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,176 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Curry Paste? ▼
Curry Paste ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,176 of 247,206), appearing in 47 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Curry Paste so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Curry Paste appears in 47 products (#5,176 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Curry Paste). 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.