Black Peppercorns
Black Peppercorns appears in 108 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 Peppercorns appears in 108 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.
- 108
- catalogued products
- #2,965
- usage rank of 247,206
- 44
- named brands represented
- 48%
- 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.
Black Peppercorns: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,965 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,965
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 26 others that also appear in exactly 108 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 48%
- Averaged label depth puts Black Peppercorns in the upper half of the list (48% of list length, mean slot 6.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Black Peppercorns spans 44 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Ahi Tuna; Beef Bone Broth; Beef Pot Roast when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
44 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 44 of 92 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 Black Peppercorns
Products Containing Black Peppercorns
16 busy labels from the 108 indexed products that list Black Peppercorns:
Black Peppercorns vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Black Peppercorns: 108 products, mean screening score 99.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Bht And Citric Acid”, “Black”, “Chickpea Protein”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Black Peppercorns page
Use the 108-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Black Peppercorns and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare Black Peppercorns with a peer such as “Bht And Citric Acid” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Black Peppercorns? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Black Peppercorns, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,965 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Black Peppercorns? ▼
Black Peppercorns ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,965 of 247,206), appearing in 108 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 Peppercorns so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Black Peppercorns appears in 108 products (#2,965 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Black Peppercorns). 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.