Soy Paste

Soy Paste appears in 7 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

Soy Paste appears in 7 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.

7
catalogued products
#19,546
usage rank of 247,206
2
named brands represented
65%
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.

Reading this ingredient record

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 3 of 7 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Brown Rice & Korean Seasonal Beef; SOON Veggie Noodle Soup; Chicken to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 90–100 score range to Soy Paste itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

3 of 7 linked records have some flagged component

All 7 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 90–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

High-volume listing for Soy Paste - usage rank #19,546

Usage rank
#19,546
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
65%
Mean relative depth 65% across 7 parsed labels, slot 51.0 on average. Soy Paste tends to sit in the lower 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.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 7 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 Soy Paste

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Soy Paste Brown Rice & Korean Seasonal BeefSOON Veggie Noodle SoupChickenOrange chickenOrange chicken, breaded dark meat chicken coated in orange sauce with fried riceSoon VeggieSoon veggie noodle soup
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

High-volume peers for Soy Paste: 7 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Soy Paste record

Start from Soy Paste's 7 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

  • Check the listed products containing Soy Paste before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
  • See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Soy Paste carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Soy Paste. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Soy Paste?

Soy Paste ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Soy Paste so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Soy Paste appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Soy 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.