Tomato Lycopene
Tomato Lycopene carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 35 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Tomato Lycopene appears in 35 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Color Additive.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 35
- catalogued products
- #6,340
- usage rank of 247,206
- 5
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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 Lycopene - usage rank #6,340
- Usage rank
- #6,340
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 111 others that also appear in exactly 35 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 35 products listing it (mean slot 29.5). Tomato Lycopene usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 12 of 35 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare American special roll wr; California Roll Wr, California; Juice Blend to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Tomato Lycopene itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
12 of 35 linked records have some flagged component
All 35 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Tomato Lycopene
Across the 35 products on this site that list Tomato Lycopene, 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 4.5x more often with Tomato Lycopene than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tomato Lycopene products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 9 | 25.7% | 5.7% |
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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Lycopene
Products Containing Tomato Lycopene
High-volume slice (16 of 35) for products naming Tomato Lycopene:
High-volume peers for Tomato Lycopene
Top-decile company for Tomato Lycopene: 35 listings averaging 98.3/100.
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 Lycopene page
Start from Tomato Lycopene's 35 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Tomato Lycopene before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. 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 Lycopene
Does Tomato Lycopene carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Tomato Lycopene itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Color Additive" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tomato Lycopene? ▼
Tomato Lycopene ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,340 of 247,206), appearing in 35 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Tomato Lycopene do in food? ▼
Tomato Lycopene is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tomato Lycopene). 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.