Cayenne Pepper Powder
Cayenne Pepper Powder appears in 109 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
Cayenne Pepper Powder appears in 109 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.
- 109
- catalogued products
- #2,950
- usage rank of 247,206
- 46
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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.
Cayenne Pepper Powder sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,950 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,950
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 14 others that also appear in exactly 109 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 109 products listing it (mean slot 19.4). Cayenne Pepper Powder usually falls near the end of the captured 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cayenne Pepper Powder spans 46 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Almonds BOLD Elote Mexican-Style Street Corn; AUTUMNAL HARVEST Creamy PASTA SAUCE; Banjo Bourbon Bbq Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
46 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 81 of 102 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Cayenne Pepper Powder
Across the 109 products on this site that list Cayenne 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cayenne Pepper Powder products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 6.4% | 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 Cayenne Pepper Powder
Products Containing Cayenne Pepper Powder
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 109 indexed products containing Cayenne Pepper Powder:
High-volume peers for Cayenne Pepper Powder beside “Annatto Vegetable Color”
Top-decile company for Cayenne Pepper Powder: 109 listings averaging 98.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Annatto Vegetable Color”, “B-vitamin”, “Cultured Cream And Milk”.
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.
What to do with this Cayenne Pepper Powder record
109 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Cayenne Pepper Powder are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Cayenne Pepper Powder before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the 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 Cayenne Pepper Powder? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cayenne Pepper Powder, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,950 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cayenne Pepper Powder? ▼
Cayenne Pepper Powder ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,950 of 247,206), appearing in 109 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cayenne Pepper Powder so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cayenne Pepper Powder appears in 109 products (#2,950 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cayenne 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.