Tamarinds
Tamarinds carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 70 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Tamarinds appears in 70 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Listed.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 70
- catalogued products
- #3,970
- usage rank of 247,206
- 25
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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 Tamarinds - usage rank #3,970
- Usage rank
- #3,970
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 40 others that also appear in exactly 70 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 70 parsed labels, slot 21.9 on average. Tamarinds tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
65.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Tamarinds as the trigger. Open records such as A Distinct Savory Sauce; A Distinct Savory Sauce; Authentic Worcestershire Sauce and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 73% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
65.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 62 of 70 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
What else is usually in the same product as Tamarinds
Across the 70 products on this site that list Tamarinds, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 11.3x more often with Tamarinds than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tamarinds products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 45 | 64.3% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 10 | 14.3% | 1.3% |
| TBHQ | 10 | 14.3% | 0.5% |
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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Tamarinds
Products Containing Tamarinds
16 busy labels from the 70 indexed products that list Tamarinds:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural And Artificial Flavour”)
Top-decile company for Tamarinds: 70 listings averaging 92.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural And Artificial Flavour”, “Bakers Yeast”, “Base”.
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 Tamarinds record
70 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Tamarinds are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Tamarinds to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Tamarinds with a peer such as “Natural And Artificial Flavour” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Tamarinds — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Tamarinds sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
65.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Tamarinds is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Tamarinds scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Listed". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tamarinds? ▼
Tamarinds ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,970 of 247,206), appearing in 70 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Tamarinds serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Tamarinds is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tamarinds). 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.