Chipotle Chile
Chipotle Chile appears in 73 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
Chipotle Chile appears in 73 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.
- 73
- catalogued products
- #3,864
- usage rank of 247,206
- 23
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
Chipotle Chile: top-decile catalog footprint (#3,864 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,864
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 73 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 73 parsed labels, slot 15.0 on average. Chipotle Chile tends to sit in the lower half of the 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 2.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Chipotle Chile spans 23 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Al pastor marinade with chipotle & pineapple juice, al pastor; Amaranth Chips; Amaranth Churritos when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
23 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 37 of 68 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 Chipotle Chile
Products Containing Chipotle Chile
16 busy labels from the 73 indexed products that list Chipotle Chile:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Added To Retain Freshness”)
Top-decile company for Chipotle Chile: 73 listings averaging 99.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added To Retain Freshness; Anti Caking Agent; Chiles.
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 Chipotle Chile evidence
Start from Chipotle Chile's 73 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Chipotle Chile before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Chipotle Chile with a peer such as “Added To Retain Freshness” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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 Chipotle Chile
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Chipotle Chile? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Chipotle Chile, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,864 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chipotle Chile? ▼
Chipotle Chile ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,864 of 247,206), appearing in 73 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chipotle Chile so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chipotle Chile appears in 73 products (#3,864 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chipotle 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.