Red Curry Paste
Red Curry Paste appears in 73 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
Red Curry Paste appears in 73 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.
- 73
- catalogued products
- #3,864
- usage rank of 247,206
- 39
- named brands represented
- 29%
- 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.
Red Curry Paste sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,864 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,864
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 73 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 29%
- Mean relative depth 29% across 73 parsed labels, slot 10.0 on average. Red Curry Paste tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Red Curry Paste spans 39 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with A taste of thai, red curry noodles; Chicken pad thai; Classic curry singapore street noodles when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
39 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 48 of 68 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 Red Curry Paste
Across the 73 products on this site that list Red Curry Paste, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 1.8x more often with Red Curry Paste than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Red Curry Paste products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 6 | 8.2% | 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 Red Curry Paste
Products Containing Red Curry Paste
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 73 indexed products containing Red Curry Paste:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added To Retain Freshness”)
High-volume peers for Red Curry Paste: 73 products, mean screening score 99.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Added To Retain Freshness”, “Anti Caking Agent”, “Chiles”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Red Curry Paste page
Use the 73-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Red Curry Paste before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Red Curry Paste next to “Anti Caking Agent” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Red Curry Paste — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Red Curry Paste? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Red Curry Paste, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,864 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Red Curry Paste? ▼
Red Curry Paste ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,864 of 247,206), appearing in 73 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Red Curry Paste so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Red Curry Paste appears in 73 products (#3,864 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Red Curry Paste). 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.