Tahini
Tahini appears in 901 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
Tahini appears in 901 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.
- 901
- catalogued products
- #716
- usage rank of 247,206
- 230
- 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.
High-volume listing for Tahini - usage rank #716
- Usage rank
- #716
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 29%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 901 products listing it (mean slot 5.6). Tahini 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.
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 1.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tahini spans 230 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 365 everyday value, organic dressing, sweet carrot & ginger miso; All natural hummus; All Natural Hummus when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
230 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 493 of 861 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 Tahini
Across the 901 products on this site that list Tahini, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tahini products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 8 | 0.9% | 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 Tahini
Products Containing Tahini
16 busy labels from the 901 indexed products that list Tahini:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali”)
Tahini sits among other busy catalog rows (901 products, mean score 99.9/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali; Defatted Soy Flour; Vitamin A Palmitate Added. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Next steps from the Tahini page
Use the 901-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Tahini to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Tahini with a peer such as “Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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 Tahini? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tahini, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#716 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tahini? ▼
Tahini ranks in the top decile by product count (#716 of 247,206), appearing in 901 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tahini so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tahini appears in 901 products (#716 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tahini). 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.