Tomato
Tomato appears in 3,433 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
Tomato appears in 3,433 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.
- 3,433
- catalogued products
- #278
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,078
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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 Tomato - usage rank #278
- Usage rank
- #278
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Averaged label depth puts Tomato in the upper half of the list (43% of list length, mean slot 14.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tomato spans 1078 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 10 bean soup mix; 100% Fruit & Vegetable Juice; 100% vegetable and fruit juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1078 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 2470 of 3266 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 Tomato
Across the 3,433 products on this site that list Tomato, 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 Tomato products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 279 | 8.1% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 105 | 3.1% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 87 | 2.5% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 87 | 2.5% | 3.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 82 | 2.4% | 2.4% |
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 Tomato
Products Containing Tomato
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 3,433 indexed products containing Tomato:
High-volume peers for Tomato beside “Vanilla Flavor”
High-volume peers for Tomato: 3,433 products, mean screening score 96.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Vanilla Flavor; Sodium Alginate; Tomato Juice. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Tomato record
Start from Tomato's 3,433 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Tomato before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Tomato with a peer such as “Vanilla Flavor” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Tomato
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tomato? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tomato, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#278 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tomato? ▼
Tomato ranks in the top decile by product count (#278 of 247,206), appearing in 3,433 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tomato so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tomato appears in 3,433 products (#278 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tomato). 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.