Sesame Paste
Sesame Paste appears in 133 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
Sesame Paste appears in 133 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.
- 133
- catalogued products
- #2,564
- usage rank of 247,206
- 56
- named brands represented
- 34%
- 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.
Sesame Paste sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,564 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,564
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 133 products, listed in more products than 99% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 34%
- Averaged label depth puts Sesame Paste in the upper half of the list (34% of list length, mean slot 9.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 15.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Sesame Paste spans 56 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with All Natural Baba Ganoush Hummus; Artichoke Hummus; Artichoke piquillo hummus dip when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
56 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 79 of 130 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 Sesame Paste
Across the 133 products on this site that list Sesame 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.1x more often with Sesame Paste than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sesame Paste products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 16 | 12% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 6 | 4.5% | 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 Sesame Paste
Products Containing Sesame Paste
High-volume slice (16 of 133) for products naming Sesame Paste:
High-volume peers for Sesame Paste beside “100% Arabica Coffee”
High-volume peers for Sesame Paste: 133 products, mean screening score 97.9/100. Nearest count peers include “100% Arabica Coffee”, “Aged Cheddar Cheese”, “Butter Fat”. 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.
What to do with this Sesame Paste record
133 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Sesame Paste are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Sesame Paste to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Sesame Paste next to “Aged Cheddar Cheese” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Sesame Paste
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Sesame Paste? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Sesame Paste, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,564 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sesame Paste? ▼
Sesame Paste ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,564 of 247,206), appearing in 133 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sesame Paste so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sesame Paste appears in 133 products (#2,564 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sesame 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.