Oyster Sauce
Oyster Sauce appears in 98 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
Oyster Sauce appears in 98 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.
- 98
- catalogued products
- #3,174
- usage rank of 247,206
- 40
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
56.1% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Oyster Sauce as the trigger. Open records such as Abalone in Premium Oyster Sauce; Asian Meals, Malaysian Garlic Sesame Noodle, Rice Noodle Soup Bowl; Asian Meals, Malaysian Rice Noodle Soup Bowl, Ginger Spring Onion and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 95.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 43% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
56.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 93 of 97 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.
Oyster Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,174 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,174
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 98 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Mean relative depth 43% across 98 parsed labels, slot 14.9 on average. Oyster Sauce tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 else is usually in the same product as Oyster Sauce
Across the 98 products on this site that list Oyster 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 9.8x more often with Oyster Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Oyster Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 55 | 56.1% | 5.7% |
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 Oyster Sauce
Products Containing Oyster Sauce
16 busy labels from the 98 indexed products that list Oyster Sauce:
High-volume peers for Oyster Sauce beside “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”
Top-decile company for Oyster Sauce: 98 listings averaging 95.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Active Yogurt Cultures With L. Bulgaricus”, “Anti-caking Agents”, “Asiago”.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
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 Oyster Sauce record
Use the 98-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Oyster Sauce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Place Oyster Sauce next to “Anti-caking Agents” (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.
Oyster Sauce — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Oyster Sauce sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
56.1% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Oyster Sauce is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Oyster Sauce? ▼
Oyster Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,174 of 247,206), appearing in 98 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Oyster Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Oyster Sauce appears in 98 products (#3,174 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Oyster 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.