Ketchup
Ketchup appears in 479 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
Ketchup appears in 479 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.
- 479
- catalogued products
- #1,066
- usage rank of 247,206
- 187
- named brands represented
- 22%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 190 of 479 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 Barbeque Sauce; A blend of broccoli stems, napa cabbage, carrots, kohlrabi, and sugar snap peas with individual packet of cooked brown rice and sesame sriracha sauce, sesame sriracha; Amy's, breakfast scramble with meatless sausage & country-style potatoes to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Ketchup itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
190 of 479 linked records have some flagged component
All 476 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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 Ketchup - usage rank #1,066
- Usage rank
- #1,066
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 22%
- Mean relative depth 22% across 479 parsed labels, slot 10.1 on average. Ketchup tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Ketchup
Across the 479 products on this site that list Ketchup, 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 6x more often with Ketchup than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ketchup products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 165 | 34.4% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 12 | 2.5% | 1.3% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 11 | 2.3% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 9 | 1.9% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 8 | 1.7% | 5.4% |
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 Ketchup
Products Containing Ketchup
High-volume slice (16 of 479) for products naming Ketchup:
High-volume peers for Ketchup beside “Degermed Yellow Corn Meal”
Top-decile company for Ketchup: 479 listings averaging 96.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Degermed Yellow Corn Meal; And Cayenne; Fruit And Vegetable Juice For Color.
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.
Next steps from the Ketchup page
Start from Ketchup's 479 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Ketchup before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Ketchup next to “And Cayenne” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Ketchup 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 Ketchup. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ketchup? ▼
Ketchup ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,066 of 247,206), appearing in 479 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ketchup so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ketchup appears in 479 products (#1,066 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ketchup). 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.