Hoisin Sauce
Hoisin Sauce appears in 106 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
Hoisin Sauce appears in 106 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.
- 106
- catalogued products
- #3,011
- usage rank of 247,206
- 50
- named brands represented
- 40%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
57.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Hoisin Sauce as the trigger. Open records such as Aqua star, smart seafood sautes, kung pao shrimp; Asian Five Spice Beef And Vegetables With Rice, Vegetables And Mongolian-Style Sauce, Asian Five Spice Beef And Vegetables; Asian sesame salad kit and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 91.5/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 40% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
57.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 102 of 106 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.
High-volume listing for Hoisin Sauce - usage rank #3,011
- Usage rank
- #3,011
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 21 others that also appear in exactly 106 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 40%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 106 products listing it (mean slot 18.3). Hoisin Sauce usually falls in the upper 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Hoisin Sauce
Across the 106 products on this site that list Hoisin Sauce, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 8.9x more often with Hoisin Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Hoisin Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 54 | 50.9% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 12.3% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 6.6% | 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 Hoisin Sauce
Products Containing Hoisin Sauce
16 busy labels from the 106 indexed products that list Hoisin Sauce:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Organic Ancho Chili Pepper”)
Hoisin Sauce sits among other busy catalog rows (106 products, mean score 91.5/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Ancho Chili Pepper; As Methylcobalamin; Bacon Cured With Water. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Hoisin Sauce evidence
Start from Hoisin Sauce's 106 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Hoisin Sauce before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Hoisin Sauce sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
57.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Hoisin Sauce is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Hoisin Sauce? ▼
Hoisin Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,011 of 247,206), appearing in 106 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Hoisin Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Hoisin Sauce appears in 106 products (#3,011 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Hoisin 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.