Cayenne Red Pepper
Cayenne Red Pepper appears in 71 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 Red Pepper appears in 71 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.
- 71
- catalogued products
- #3,937
- usage rank of 247,206
- 23
- named brands represented
- 51%
- 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: 33 of 71 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Blazing buffalo chicken sausage; Blazing buffalo style chicken pinwheels premium sandwiches; Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Cayenne Red 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.
33 of 71 linked records have some flagged component
All 66 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
Cayenne Red Pepper sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,937 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,937
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 71 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 51%
- Averaged label depth puts Cayenne Red Pepper in the lower half of the list (51% of list length, mean slot 19.6). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Cayenne Red Pepper
Across the 71 products on this site that list Cayenne Red Pepper, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 5.9x more often with Cayenne Red Pepper than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cayenne Red Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 24 | 33.8% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | 12.7% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 5 | 7% | 1.4% |
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 Red Pepper
Products Containing Cayenne Red Pepper
High-volume slice (16 of 71) for products naming Cayenne Red Pepper:
High-volume peers for Cayenne Red Pepper beside “2% Or Less Of Sugar”
Top-decile company for Cayenne Red Pepper: 71 listings averaging 93.5/100. Nearest count peers include “2% Or Less Of Sugar”, “All Purpose Flour”, “Organic Baker's Yeast Extract”.
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.
What to do with this Cayenne Red Pepper record
Use the 71-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cayenne Red Pepper to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Cayenne Red 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 Cayenne Red Pepper. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cayenne Red Pepper? ▼
Cayenne Red Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,937 of 247,206), appearing in 71 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cayenne Red Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cayenne Red Pepper appears in 71 products (#3,937 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cayenne Red 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.