Chile
Chile appears in 101 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
Chile appears in 101 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.
- 101
- catalogued products
- #3,116
- usage rank of 247,206
- 45
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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: 43 of 101 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Barcel, Diabla Flavor Burst Chips, Diabla; Barcel, potato chips, hot, lim'on-chipotle, hot, lim'on-chipotle; Barcel, takis, xplosion tortilla chips, cheese & chili pepper to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Chile itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
43 of 101 linked records have some flagged component
All 90 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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 Chile - usage rank #3,116
- Usage rank
- #3,116
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 101 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Averaged label depth puts Chile in the lower half of the list (52% of list length, mean slot 12.2). 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 Chile
Across the 101 products on this site that list Chile, 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. TBHQ shows up about 45.6x more often with Chile than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chile products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBHQ | 23 | 22.8% | 0.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 14 | 13.9% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 13 | 12.9% | 5.4% |
| BHT | 10 | 9.9% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 9 | 8.9% | 0.7% |
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 Chile
Products Containing Chile
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 101 indexed products containing Chile:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Acerola”)
Top-decile company for Chile: 101 listings averaging 82.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Acerola”, “Organic Arborio Rice”, “Chilli Powder”.
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.
What to do with this Chile record
Start from Chile's 101 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Chile and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Chile with a peer such as “Acerola” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Chile 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 Chile. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chile? ▼
Chile ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,116 of 247,206), appearing in 101 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chile so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chile appears in 101 products (#3,116 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chile). 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.