Chili Peppers
Chili Peppers appears in 1,099 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 Peppers appears in 1,099 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.
- 1,099
- catalogued products
- #623
- usage rank of 247,206
- 383
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 249 of 1099 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2 Gringo's Chupacabra Rub, A Fine Meat Rub; A Cajun Life, All Purpose Cajun Seasoning; A Distinct Savory Sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Chili 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.
249 of 1,099 linked records have some flagged component
All 1052 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 Chili Peppers - usage rank #623
- Usage rank
- #623
- 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
- 50%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,110 products listing it (mean slot 13.8). Chili Peppers usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Chili Peppers
Across the 1,099 products on this site that list Chili 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 2.6x more often with Chili Peppers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chili Peppers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 164 | 14.9% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 29 | 2.6% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 23 | 2.1% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 22 | 2% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 6 | 15 | 1.4% | 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 Peppers
Products Containing Chili Peppers
16 busy labels from the 1,099 indexed products that list Chili Peppers:
High-volume peers for Chili Peppers beside “Manganese Sulfate”
High-volume peers for Chili Peppers: 1,099 products, mean screening score 96.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Manganese Sulfate”, “Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate”, “Organic Evaporated Cane Sugar”. 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 Peppers page
Start from Chili Peppers's 1,099 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Chili Peppers before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Chili Peppers — common follow-ups
Does Chili 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 Chili Peppers. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chili Peppers? ▼
Chili Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#623 of 247,206), appearing in 1,099 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chili Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chili Peppers appears in 1,099 products (#623 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chili 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.