Ancho Chile
Ancho Chile appears in 57 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
Ancho Chile appears in 57 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.
- 57
- catalogued products
- #4,553
- usage rank of 247,206
- 26
- named brands represented
- 60%
- 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.
Ancho Chile sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,553 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,553
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 61 others that also appear in exactly 57 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Averaged label depth puts Ancho Chile in the lower half of the list (60% of list length, mean slot 14.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Ancho Chile spans 26 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 18g Protein Black Bean Burger; Al Pastor & Pineapple Pork Sticks Street Taco Inspired; Al pastor marinade with chipotle & pineapple juice, al pastor 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.
26 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 28 of 53 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 Ancho Chile
Products Containing Ancho Chile
16 busy labels from the 57 indexed products that list Ancho Chile:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural & Artificial Flavoring”)
Top-decile company for Ancho Chile: 57 listings averaging 99.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Natural & Artificial Flavoring”, “Apricot Kernels”, “Artificial Flavours”.
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 Ancho Chile evidence
Use the 57-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Ancho Chile and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Ancho Chile
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Ancho Chile? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Ancho Chile, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,553 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ancho Chile? ▼
Ancho Chile ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,553 of 247,206), appearing in 57 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ancho Chile so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ancho Chile appears in 57 products (#4,553 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ancho Chile). 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.