Turkey Tail
Turkey Tail appears in 39 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
Turkey Tail appears in 39 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.
- 39
- catalogued products
- #5,893
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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.
Turkey Tail sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,893 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,893
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 113 others that also appear in exactly 39 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 39 products listing it (mean slot 21.0). Turkey Tail 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Turkey Tail spans 22 named brands and is led by the Beverages and beverages preparations group. Start with Alive Cola; Beauty Matcha Latte; Daily Greens + Superfoods when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
22 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 24 of 24 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 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 Turkey Tail
Products Containing Turkey Tail
16 busy labels from the 39 indexed products that list Turkey Tail:
High-volume peers for Turkey Tail
Turkey Tail sits among other busy catalog rows (39 products, mean score 99.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Turkey Tail evidence
Start from Turkey Tail's 39 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Turkey Tail before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Turkey Tail? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Turkey Tail, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,893 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Turkey Tail? ▼
Turkey Tail ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,893 of 247,206), appearing in 39 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Turkey Tail so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Turkey Tail appears in 39 products (#5,893 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Turkey Tail). 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.