Tomato Sauce
Tomato Sauce appears in 695 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 Sauce appears in 695 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.
- 695
- catalogued products
- #839
- usage rank of 247,206
- 244
- named brands represented
- 30%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 140 of 695 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3 cheeses and tomato sauce seasoned with extra virgin olive oil pizza, three cheese; 3 Meat Supreme Pizza With Pepperoni, Chicken; 555 sardines (r) 425g to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 40–100 score range to Tomato Sauce itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
140 of 695 linked records have some flagged component
All 673 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 40–100 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.
Tomato Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#839 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #839
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 696 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 30%
- Averaged label depth puts Tomato Sauce in the upper half of the list (30% of list length, mean slot 9.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Tomato Sauce
Across the 695 products on this site that list Tomato Sauce, 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 3.6x more often with Tomato Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Tomato Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 60 | 8.6% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 57 | 8.2% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 55 | 7.9% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 50 | 7.2% | 1.1% |
| Carrageenan | 18 | 2.6% | 4.5% |
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 Sauce
Products Containing Tomato Sauce
16 busy labels from the 695 indexed products that list Tomato Sauce:
Tomato Sauce vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Tomato Sauce: 695 products, mean screening score 95.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Almond; Carrot Powder; Mustard Seeds. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Tomato Sauce evidence
695 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Tomato Sauce are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Tomato Sauce before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. 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 Sauce
Does Tomato Sauce carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Tomato Sauce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tomato Sauce? ▼
Tomato Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#839 of 247,206), appearing in 695 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tomato Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tomato Sauce appears in 695 products (#839 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tomato Sauce). 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.