Chili Pepper
Chili Pepper appears in 3,542 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 Pepper appears in 3,542 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.
- 3,542
- catalogued products
- #270
- usage rank of 247,206
- 1,009
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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: 885 of 3542 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 10,000 Lakes No-Salt Blend; 1000 Fajita Island Dressing & Dipping Sauce; 2 Alarm Chili Kit to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Chili 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.
885 of 3,542 linked records have some flagged component
All 3416 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.
Chili Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#270 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #270
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3,549 products listing it (mean slot 16.3). Chili Pepper 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Chili Pepper
Across the 3,542 products on this site that list Chili 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 3x more often with Chili Pepper than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chili Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 606 | 17.1% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 150 | 4.2% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 94 | 2.7% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 73 | 2.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 70 | 2% | 3.4% |
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 Pepper
Products Containing Chili Pepper
16 busy labels from the 3,542 indexed products that list Chili Pepper:
High-volume peers for Chili Pepper beside “Milk Protein Concentrate”
High-volume peers for Chili Pepper: 3,542 products, mean screening score 95.5/100. Nearest count peers include “Milk Protein Concentrate”, “Margarine”, “Red Bell Pepper”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Chili Pepper record
Use the 3,542-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Chili Pepper before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Chili Pepper next to “Margarine” (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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Chili Pepper
Does Chili 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 Chili Pepper. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chili Pepper? ▼
Chili Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#270 of 247,206), appearing in 3,542 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chili Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chili Pepper appears in 3,542 products (#270 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chili 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.