Chili Flavor
Chili Flavor appears in 76 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 Flavor appears in 76 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.
- 76
- catalogued products
- #3,767
- usage rank of 247,206
- 33
- named brands represented
- 88%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Chili Flavor - usage rank #3,767
- Usage rank
- #3,767
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 34 others that also appear in exactly 76 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 88%
- Mean relative depth 88% across 76 parsed labels, slot 17.4 on average. Chili Flavor tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Chili Flavor spans 33 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with Beef Chili With Beans; Chili; Chili Con Carne With Beans when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
33 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 73 of 76 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.
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 Flavor
Products Containing Chili Flavor
16 busy labels from the 76 indexed products that list Chili Flavor:
Chili Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Chili Flavor: 76 products, mean screening score 98.5/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Aspartame+ · Bacillus Subtilis · Batter Mix. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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.
Next steps from the Chili Flavor page
76 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Chili Flavor are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Chili Flavor and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. 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.
Chili Flavor — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Chili Flavor? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Chili Flavor, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,767 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chili Flavor? ▼
Chili Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,767 of 247,206), appearing in 76 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chili Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chili Flavor appears in 76 products (#3,767 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chili Flavor). 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.