Taro
Taro appears in 96 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
Taro appears in 96 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.
- 96
- catalogued products
- #3,214
- usage rank of 247,206
- 55
- named brands represented
- 26%
- 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.
Taro: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,214 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,214
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 96 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 26%
- Mean relative depth 26% across 96 parsed labels, slot 4.6 on average. Taro 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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 4.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Taro spans 55 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with B4y, Dried Veggie Snacks; Biscuits Melange De Grains Au Gout Taro; Classic Vegetable Chips when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
55 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 79 of 87 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 Taro
Products Containing Taro
16 busy labels from the 96 indexed products that list Taro:
Taro vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Taro: 96 listings averaging 98.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate · Annatto Coloring · Cake.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Taro record
Use the 96-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Taro before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Taro next to “Annatto Coloring” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Taro? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Taro, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,214 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Taro? ▼
Taro ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,214 of 247,206), appearing in 96 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Taro so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Taro appears in 96 products (#3,214 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Taro). 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.