Tomatoes
Tomatoes appears in 8,918 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
Tomatoes appears in 8,918 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.
- 8,918
- catalogued products
- #136
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,814
- named brands represented
- 23%
- 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.
Tomatoes sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#136 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #136
- 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
- 23%
- Mean relative depth 23% across 8,948 parsed labels, slot 8.7 on average. Tomatoes tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 15.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Tomatoes spans 1814 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 1/2 Cheese Pizza & 1/2 Pepperoni Pizza; 100% juice; 100% Natural Italian Style Crushed Tomatoes when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
1814 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 5102 of 8544 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 Tomatoes
Across the 8,918 products on this site that list Tomatoes, 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 Tomatoes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 705 | 7.9% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 452 | 5.1% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 372 | 4.2% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 369 | 4.1% | 0.7% |
| Carrageenan | 293 | 3.3% | 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 Tomatoes
Products Containing Tomatoes
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 8,918 indexed products containing Tomatoes:
High-volume peers for Tomatoes beside “Carnauba Wax”
Tomatoes sits among other busy catalog rows (8,918 products, mean score 96.9/100). Nearest count peers include “Carnauba Wax”, “Ferrous Sulfate”, “Vanilla”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Tomatoes evidence
Start from Tomatoes's 8,918 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Tomatoes before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Tomatoes next to “Ferrous Sulfate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- 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 Tomatoes
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Tomatoes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Tomatoes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#136 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Tomatoes? ▼
Tomatoes ranks in the top decile by product count (#136 of 247,206), appearing in 8,918 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Tomatoes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Tomatoes appears in 8,918 products (#136 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Tomatoes). 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.