éPices
éPices appears in 72 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
éPices appears in 72 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.
- 72
- catalogued products
- #3,897
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 68%
- 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.
éPices: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,897 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,897
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 72 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 68%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 72 products listing it (mean slot 19.5). éPices 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.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 5.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: éPices spans 64 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with All natural Yellow Mustard; Barbecue Sauce; Battered Blue Cod - Captain Highliner when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
64 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 58 of 66 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 éPices
Products Containing éPices
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 72 indexed products containing éPices:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added To Retain Moisture”)
Top-decile company for éPices: 72 listings averaging 98.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added To Retain Moisture; Almond Oil; Natural Banana Flavoring.
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.
What to do with this éPices record
Use the 72-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing éPices before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
éPices — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on éPices? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to éPices, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,897 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with éPices? ▼
éPices ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,897 of 247,206), appearing in 72 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is éPices so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet éPices appears in 72 products (#3,897 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (éPices). 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.