Tilapia
Tilapia appears in 274 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
Tilapia appears in 274 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.
- 274
- catalogued products
- #1,573
- usage rank of 247,206
- 98
- named brands represented
- 20%
- 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.
Tilapia: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,573 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,573
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 274 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 20%
- Mean relative depth 20% across 274 parsed labels, slot 4.9 on average. Tilapia tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 12% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tilapia spans 98 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with All natural tilapia; All Natural Tilapia; American Pride, Wild Alaska Pollock Fillets, Sea Salt & Pepper when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
98 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 179 of 244 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 Tilapia
Across the 274 products on this site that list Tilapia, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 15.4x more often with Tilapia than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tilapia products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 21 | 7.7% | 0.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 19 | 6.9% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 8 | 2.9% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 7 | 2.6% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 7 | 2.6% | 5.4% |
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 Tilapia
Products Containing Tilapia
16 busy labels from the 274 indexed products that list Tilapia:
High-volume peers for Tilapia beside “Organic Agave Inulin”
High-volume peers for Tilapia: 274 products, mean screening score 96.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Agave Inulin; Low Moisture Mozzarella Cheese; Orange Juice From Concentrate. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Tilapia record
Use the 274-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Tilapia and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Questions readers ask about Tilapia
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tilapia? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tilapia, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,573 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tilapia? ▼
Tilapia ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,573 of 247,206), appearing in 274 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tilapia so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tilapia appears in 274 products (#1,573 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tilapia). 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.