Tomato Essence
Tomato Essence appears in 10 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 Essence appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 79%
- 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.
Tomato Essence sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#15,180 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 79%
- Averaged label depth puts Tomato Essence near the end of the captured list (79% of list length, mean slot 34.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tomato Essence spans 5 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Apple bourbon pork tenderloin, apple bourbon; Apple bourbon pork tenderloin, apple bourbon; Arroz con pollo meal bowl when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
5 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10 of 10 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Essence
Products Containing Tomato Essence
A sample of 10 high-volume listings among the 10 indexed products containing Tomato Essence:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Tomato Essence: 10 listings averaging 99.5/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Tomato Essence record
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This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Tomato Essence — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tomato Essence? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tomato Essence, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#15,180 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tomato Essence? ▼
Tomato Essence ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tomato Essence so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tomato Essence appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tomato Essence). 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.