Ancho Chile Pepper

Ancho Chile Pepper appears in 16 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 Pepper appears in 16 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.

16
catalogued products
#10,944
usage rank of 247,206
8
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.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5 of 16 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ancho adobo sauce; Chipotle Barbecue Sauce; Cumin carrot oat milk soup to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Ancho Chile Pepper itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

5 of 16 linked records have some flagged component

All 16 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 3, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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.

Ancho Chile Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#10,944 of 247,206)

Usage rank
#10,944
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 504 others that also appear in exactly 16 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
71%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 16 products listing it (mean slot 21.1). Ancho Chile Pepper 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 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 Pepper

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Ancho Chile Pepper
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Ancho Chile Pepper vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Ancho Chile Pepper: 16 products, mean screening score 98.4/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Using the Ancho Chile Pepper evidence

16 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ancho Chile Pepper are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Check the listed products containing Ancho Chile Pepper before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Ancho Chile Pepper

Does Ancho Chile Pepper 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 Ancho Chile Pepper. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Ancho Chile Pepper?

Ancho Chile Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,944 of 247,206), appearing in 16 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Ancho Chile Pepper so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ancho Chile Pepper appears in 16 products (#10,944 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ancho Chile Pepper). 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.