Tomato Concentrate

Tomato Concentrate appears in 1,625 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 Concentrate appears in 1,625 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.

1,625
catalogued products
#477
usage rank of 247,206
448
named brands represented
15%
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 Concentrate - usage rank #477

Usage rank
#477
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
15%
Averaged label depth puts Tomato Concentrate near the top of the captured list (15% of list length, mean slot 5.4). 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.

How to use this page

Use prevalence before concern

Only 18.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tomato Concentrate spans 448 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 100% Juice; 100% juice; 100% juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

448 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1331 of 1603 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 Concentrate

Across the 1,625 products on this site that list Tomato Concentrate, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.5x more often with Tomato Concentrate than in the catalogue at large.

Caramel Coloring: +8.5ppCaramel Coloring+8.5ppSodium Nitrite: -0.4ppSodium Nitrite-0.4ppCarrageenan: -2.7ppCarrageenan-2.7ppRed 40: -3.9ppRed 40-3.9ppBHT: +0.1ppBHT+0.1pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Tomato Concentrate products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Caramel Coloring
8.5pp
Sodium Nitrite
-0.4pp
Carrageenan
-2.7pp
Red 40
-3.9pp
BHT
0.1pp
Additive Shared products Share of Tomato Concentrate products Share of all products
Caramel Coloring 230 14.2% 5.7%
Sodium Nitrite 33 2% 2.4%
Carrageenan 29 1.8% 4.5%
Red 40 25 1.5% 5.4%
BHT 20 1.2% 1.1%

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 Concentrate

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Tomato Concentrate
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Tomato Concentrate vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Tomato Concentrate: 1,625 listings averaging 97.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Evaporated Cane Juice; Mango; Mechanically Separated Chicken.

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 Tomato Concentrate page

1,625 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Tomato Concentrate are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Tomato Concentrate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Place Tomato Concentrate next to “Mango” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. 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.

Questions readers ask about Tomato Concentrate

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tomato Concentrate?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tomato Concentrate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#477 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Tomato Concentrate?

Tomato Concentrate ranks in the top decile by product count (#477 of 247,206), appearing in 1,625 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Tomato Concentrate so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tomato Concentrate appears in 1,625 products (#477 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tomato Concentrate). 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.