Light Tuna
Light Tuna appears in 309 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
Light Tuna appears in 309 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.
- 309
- catalogued products
- #1,463
- usage rank of 247,206
- 73
- named brands represented
- 1%
- 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.
Light Tuna: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,463 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,463
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 309 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 1%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 309 products listing it (mean slot 1.6). Light Tuna usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Light Tuna spans 73 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with Albacore White Premium Tuna In Water; Applewood Smoke Wild Caught Tuna; Bold lightly seasoned premium tuna red curry with coconut, red curry with coconut when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
73 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 205 of 299 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 Light Tuna
Across the 309 products on this site that list Light Tuna, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Light Tuna products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 2.9% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 2.6% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 7 | 2.3% | 1.3% |
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 Light Tuna
Products Containing Light Tuna
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 309 indexed products containing Light Tuna:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bacillus Coagulans Gbi-30 6086”)
High-volume peers for Light Tuna: 309 products, mean screening score 99.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Bacillus Coagulans Gbi-30 6086 · Cheeses · Potassium Benzoate And Potassium Sorbate. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Light Tuna page
Use the 309-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Light Tuna before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Light Tuna with a peer such as “Bacillus Coagulans Gbi-30 6086” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Light Tuna — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Light Tuna? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Light Tuna, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,463 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Light Tuna? ▼
Light Tuna ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,463 of 247,206), appearing in 309 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Light Tuna so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Light Tuna appears in 309 products (#1,463 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Light Tuna). 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.