Shrimp Paste
Shrimp Paste appears in 63 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
Shrimp Paste appears in 63 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.
- 63
- catalogued products
- #4,249
- usage rank of 247,206
- 26
- named brands represented
- 57%
- 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.
Shrimp Paste sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,249 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,249
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 52 others that also appear in exactly 63 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 57%
- Averaged label depth puts Shrimp Paste in the lower half of the list (57% of list length, mean slot 15.7). 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Shrimp Paste spans 26 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with A taste of thai, red curry noodles; Asian home gourmet, spice paste for indonesian mee goreng sambal fried noodles, mild; 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 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
26 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 43 of 59 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.
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 Shrimp Paste
Products Containing Shrimp Paste
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 63 indexed products containing Shrimp Paste:
Shrimp Paste vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Shrimp Paste: 63 products, mean screening score 99.4/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: 2% Or Less Of Vegetable Oil · Acai Powder · Organic Acerola Extract. 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.
What to do with this Shrimp Paste record
63 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Shrimp Paste are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Shrimp Paste to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Shrimp Paste next to “Acai Powder” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Shrimp Paste? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Shrimp Paste, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,249 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Shrimp Paste? ▼
Shrimp Paste ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,249 of 247,206), appearing in 63 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Shrimp Paste so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Shrimp Paste appears in 63 products (#4,249 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Shrimp 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.