Chili
Chili appears in 914 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
Chili appears in 914 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.
- 914
- catalogued products
- #704
- usage rank of 247,206
- 457
- named brands represented
- 55%
- 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.
Chili: top-decile catalog footprint (#704 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #704
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 921 products listing it (mean slot 14.0). Chili usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Chili spans 457 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 555 tuna (h) 155g; A taste of china, sweet and sour rice, sweet and sour, sweet and sour; A taste of china, szechuan noodles when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
457 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 662 of 862 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 Chili
Across the 914 products on this site that list Chili, 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 1.7x more often with Chili than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chili products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 87 | 9.5% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 50 | 5.5% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 34 | 3.7% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 31 | 3.4% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 28 | 3.1% | 5.4% |
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 Chili
Products Containing Chili
16 busy labels from the 914 indexed products that list Chili:
High-volume peers for Chili beside “Xylitol”
Top-decile company for Chili: 914 listings averaging 95/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Xylitol · Wine · Lemon Juice From Concentrate.
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.
Using the Chili evidence
914 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Chili are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Chili 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
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Chili? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Chili, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#704 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chili? ▼
Chili ranks in the top decile by product count (#704 of 247,206), appearing in 914 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chili so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chili appears in 914 products (#704 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chili). 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.