If you use native sql, you can refer to my code, otherwise just ignore my answer.
SELECT * FROM table WHERE tags LIKE "%banana%";
from sqlalchemy import text
bar_tags = "banana"
# '%' attention to spaces
query_sql = """SELECT * FROM table WHERE tags LIKE '%' :bar_tags '%'"""
# db is sqlalchemy session object
tags_res_list = db.execute(text(query_sql), {"bar_tags": bar_tags}).fetchall()