White Tuna
White Tuna appears in 176 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
White Tuna appears in 176 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.
- 176
- catalogued products
- #2,113
- usage rank of 247,206
- 46
- named brands represented
- 0%
- 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.
White Tuna: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,113 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,113
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 176 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 0%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 176 products listing it (mean slot 1.0). White Tuna usually falls near the top of the captured 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 1.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: White Tuna spans 46 named brands and is led by the Seafood group. Start with Albacore; Albacore Flake White Tuna in Water; ALBACORE SOLID WHITE TUNA IN WATER when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
46 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 121 of 167 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 White Tuna
Products Containing White Tuna
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 176 indexed products containing White Tuna:
High-volume peers for White Tuna beside “Black Pepper Powder”
High-volume peers for White Tuna: 176 products, mean screening score 99.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Black Pepper Powder”, “Dough”, “Or Less Of Leavening”. 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
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the White Tuna evidence
Use the 176-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list White Tuna to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
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 White Tuna? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to White Tuna, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,113 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with White Tuna? ▼
White Tuna ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,113 of 247,206), appearing in 176 indexed products led by Seafood. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is White Tuna so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet White Tuna appears in 176 products (#2,113 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (White Tuna). 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.