Dark Soy Sauce
Dark Soy Sauce appears in 22 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
Dark Soy Sauce appears in 22 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.
- 22
- catalogued products
- #8,787
- usage rank of 247,206
- 14
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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: 6 of 22 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ajinomoto Karaage; Asian home gourmet, spice paste for cantonese chow mein stir-fried noodles; BBQ Beef Yakisoba to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Dark Soy 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.
6 of 22 linked records have some flagged component
All 22 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.
Dark Soy Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,787 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,787
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 22 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 22 products listing it (mean slot 14.5). Dark Soy 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.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
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 Dark Soy Sauce
Products Containing Dark Soy Sauce
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 22 indexed products containing Dark Soy Sauce:
High-volume peers for Dark Soy Sauce
Top-decile company for Dark Soy Sauce: 22 listings averaging 98.6/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Dark Soy Sauce page
22 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Dark Soy Sauce are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Dark Soy 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
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Dark Soy Sauce
Does Dark Soy 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 Dark Soy Sauce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Dark Soy Sauce? ▼
Dark Soy Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,787 of 247,206), appearing in 22 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Dark Soy Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Dark Soy Sauce appears in 22 products (#8,787 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Dark Soy 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.