Tomatillos
Tomatillos appears in 393 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
Tomatillos appears in 393 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.
- 393
- catalogued products
- #1,217
- usage rank of 247,206
- 162
- named brands represented
- 21%
- 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.
Tomatillos sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,217 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,217
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 393 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 21%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 393 products listing it (mean slot 7.9). Tomatillos usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 7.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tomatillos spans 162 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 365 everyday value, roasted verde salsa; 365 everyday value, roasted verde salsa; 365 everyday value, salsa when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
162 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 224 of 372 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 Tomatillos
Across the 393 products on this site that list Tomatillos, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tomatillos products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 11 | 2.8% | 4.5% |
| Blue 1 | 8 | 2% | 4.2% |
| Potassium Iodate | 7 | 1.8% | 0.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 1.8% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 7 | 1.8% | 3.4% |
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 Tomatillos
Products Containing Tomatillos
16 busy labels from the 393 indexed products that list Tomatillos:
High-volume peers for Tomatillos beside “Potassium Sorbate And Calcium Disodium Edta”
Top-decile company for Tomatillos: 393 listings averaging 98.1/100. Nearest count peers include “Potassium Sorbate And Calcium Disodium Edta”, “Corn Masa Flour”, “L-carnitine”.
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.
Next steps from the Tomatillos page
Use the 393-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Tomatillos before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Tomatillos next to “Corn Masa Flour” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Tomatillos
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tomatillos? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tomatillos, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,217 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tomatillos? ▼
Tomatillos ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,217 of 247,206), appearing in 393 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tomatillos so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tomatillos appears in 393 products (#1,217 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tomatillos). 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.