Tamari
Tamari appears in 235 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
Tamari appears in 235 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.
- 235
- catalogued products
- #1,761
- usage rank of 247,206
- 86
- 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.
High-volume listing for Tamari - usage rank #1,761
- Usage rank
- #1,761
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 235 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 41%
- Mean relative depth 41% across 235 parsed labels, slot 11.9 on average. Tamari tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tamari spans 86 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Aloha Teriyaki Beef Jerky; Amy's, harvest casserole bowls; Asian Dumplings Bowl when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
86 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 129 of 225 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 Tamari
Products Containing Tamari
High-volume slice (16 of 235) for products naming Tamari:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added To Maintain Freshness”)
Tamari sits among other busy catalog rows (235 products, mean score 99.8/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Added To Maintain Freshness · Celery Extract · Diluted With Water To 5% Acidity. 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.
What to do with this Tamari record
235 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Tamari are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Tamari before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Tamari next to “Celery Extract” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Tamari — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tamari? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tamari, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,761 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tamari? ▼
Tamari ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,761 of 247,206), appearing in 235 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tamari so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tamari appears in 235 products (#1,761 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tamari). 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.