Taurine
Taurine carries a source-backed screening score of 5/5 and appears in 1,270 indexed US food products. CSPI rates it “Safe.”
Source-backed answer
Taurine appears in 1,270 catalogued products. CSPI rates it “Safe.” 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.
- 1,270
- catalogued products
- #570
- usage rank of 247,206
- 274
- named brands represented
- 33%
- 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 Taurine - usage rank #570
- Usage rank
- #570
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 33%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,270 products listing it (mean slot 11.7). Taurine 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
69.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Taurine as the trigger. Open records such as 360 Total Care Infant Formula; 5-hour ENERGY Extra Strength; 51 Fifty, Energy Drink, Fruit Punch and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 80.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 33% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
69.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1248 of 1259 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 Taurine
Across the 1,270 products on this site that list Taurine, 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. Sucralose shows up about 19.7x more often with Taurine than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Taurine products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 677 | 53.3% | 2.7% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 351 | 27.6% | 1.8% |
| Red 40 | 130 | 10.2% | 5.4% |
| Carrageenan | 104 | 8.2% | 4.5% |
| Blue 1 | 91 | 7.2% | 4.2% |
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 Taurine
Products Containing Taurine
High-volume slice (16 of 1,270) for products naming Taurine:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour”)
Taurine sits among other busy catalog rows (1,270 products, mean score 80.6/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour · Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate · As A Preservative. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Taurine page
Start from Taurine's 1,270 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Taurine before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Taurine with a peer such as “Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour” 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Taurine — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Taurine sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
69.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Taurine is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Taurine scores 5/5 on this site's screening scale and CSPI lists it as "Safe" 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 Taurine? ▼
Taurine ranks in the top decile by product count (#570 of 247,206), appearing in 1,270 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Taurine serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Taurine 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 (Taurine). 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.