Tagatose
Tagatose carries a source-backed screening score of 4/5 and appears in 22 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.”
Source-backed answer
Tagatose appears in 22 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Cut Back.” No FDA SAFFA status is attached. Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 22
- catalogued products
- #8,787
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 41%
- 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.
Tagatose: top-decile catalog footprint (#8,787 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #8,787
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 22 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 22 products listing it (mean slot 9.9). Tagatose usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 7 of 22 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream, Chocolate Fudge Brownie; Chocolate Puffs; Chocolate Raspberry Granola to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 60–100 score range to Tagatose itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
7 of 22 linked records have some flagged component
All 22 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 60–100 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.
Function
Sweetener
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 Tagatose
Products Containing Tagatose
High-volume slice (16 of 22) for products naming Tagatose:
High-volume peers for Tagatose
Tagatose sits among other busy catalog rows (22 products, mean score 96.4/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Tagatose page
Start from Tagatose's 22 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Tagatose to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Tagatose — common follow-ups
Does Tagatose carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Tagatose itself carries a CSPI "Cut Back" rating where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tagatose? ▼
Tagatose ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,787 of 247,206), appearing in 22 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Tagatose do in food? ▼
Tagatose is recorded as a sweetener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tagatose). 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.