Black Pepper Powder
Black Pepper Powder 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
Black Pepper Powder 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
- 83
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 45 of 176 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2-minute Noodles; Aloo paratha; Ancient Grains & Brown Rice to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Black Pepper Powder itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
45 of 176 linked records have some flagged component
All 166 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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.
Black Pepper Powder: 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
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 176 products listing it (mean slot 22.8). Black Pepper Powder 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.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Black Pepper Powder
Across the 176 products on this site that list Black Pepper Powder, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 4.5x more often with Black Pepper Powder than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Black Pepper Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 19 | 10.8% | 2.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 18 | 10.2% | 5.7% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
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 Black Pepper Powder
Products Containing Black Pepper Powder
High-volume slice (16 of 176) for products naming Black Pepper Powder:
High-volume peers for Black Pepper Powder beside “Dough”
High-volume peers for Black Pepper Powder: 176 products, mean screening score 96.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Dough; Or Less Of Leavening; Spices Including Paprika. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Black Pepper Powder evidence
176 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Black Pepper Powder are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Black Pepper Powder before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Black Pepper Powder
Does Black Pepper Powder 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 Black Pepper Powder. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Black Pepper Powder? ▼
Black Pepper Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,113 of 247,206), appearing in 176 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Black Pepper Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Black Pepper Powder appears in 176 products (#2,113 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Black Pepper Powder). 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.