Wasabi
Wasabi appears in 204 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
Wasabi appears in 204 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.
- 204
- catalogued products
- #1,915
- usage rank of 247,206
- 92
- named brands represented
- 71%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 99 of 204 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 365 everyday value, sweet-sabi mustard; Akita Party Tray 44pc; All American Sushi Roll to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Wasabi 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.
99 of 204 linked records have some flagged component
All 201 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.
Wasabi: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,915 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,915
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 3 others that also appear in exactly 206 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 71%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 206 products listing it (mean slot 23.7). Wasabi 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 else is usually in the same product as Wasabi
Across the 204 products on this site that list Wasabi, 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. Yellow 5 shows up about 6.1x more often with Wasabi than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Wasabi products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow 5 | 60 | 29.4% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 50 | 24.5% | 4.2% |
| Caramel Coloring | 24 | 11.8% | 5.7% |
| Aspartame | 14 | 6.9% | 0.9% |
| Yellow 6 | 12 | 5.9% | 3.4% |
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 Wasabi
Products Containing Wasabi
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 204 indexed products containing Wasabi:
High-volume peers for Wasabi beside “Juice”
Top-decile company for Wasabi: 204 listings averaging 81.2/100. Nearest count peers include “Juice”, “Apricot”, “Citric Acid Preservative”.
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 Wasabi evidence
204 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Wasabi are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Wasabi before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Wasabi with a peer such as “Juice” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Wasabi — common follow-ups
Does Wasabi 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 Wasabi. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Wasabi? ▼
Wasabi ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,915 of 247,206), appearing in 204 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Wasabi so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Wasabi appears in 204 products (#1,915 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Wasabi). 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.