Cayenne Red Peppers
Cayenne Red Peppers appears in 61 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 Peppers appears in 61 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.
- 61
- catalogued products
- #4,349
- usage rank of 247,206
- 28
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 18 of 61 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Buffalo Chicken Breast; Buffalo Ranch; Buffalo Style Chicken Dip to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Cayenne Red Peppers itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
18 of 61 linked records have some flagged component
All 60 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.
High-volume listing for Cayenne Red Peppers - usage rank #4,349
- Usage rank
- #4,349
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 39 others that also appear in exactly 61 products, listed in more products than 98.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Averaged label depth puts Cayenne Red Peppers in the upper half of the list (49% of list length, mean slot 18.7). 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 Peppers
Across the 61 products on this site that list Cayenne Red Peppers, 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 3.5x more often with Cayenne Red Peppers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cayenne Red Peppers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 19.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 8.2% | 4.5% |
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 Peppers
Products Containing Cayenne Red Peppers
16 busy labels from the 61 indexed products that list Cayenne Red Peppers:
High-volume peers for Cayenne Red Peppers beside “Natural And Artificial Flavours”
Top-decile company for Cayenne Red Peppers: 61 listings averaging 97.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural And Artificial Flavours; Basil Leaves; Brazils.
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 Red Peppers record
Start from Cayenne Red Peppers's 61 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cayenne Red Peppers to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Cayenne Red Peppers next to “Basil Leaves” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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
Does Cayenne Red Peppers 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 Peppers. 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 Peppers? ▼
Cayenne Red Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,349 of 247,206), appearing in 61 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cayenne Red Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cayenne Red Peppers appears in 61 products (#4,349 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cayenne Red Peppers). 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.