Chipotle Peppers
Chipotle Peppers appears in 628 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 Peppers appears in 628 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.
- 628
- catalogued products
- #900
- usage rank of 247,206
- 286
- named brands represented
- 53%
- 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 Peppers sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#900 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #900
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 628 products, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 53%
- Mean relative depth 53% across 628 parsed labels, slot 15.4 on average. Chipotle Peppers 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Chipotle Peppers spans 286 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 2014 Championship Salsa; 3 pepper blend cheese; 3 Pepper Colby Jack Cheese, Spicy when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
286 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 435 of 606 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 Chipotle Peppers
Across the 628 products on this site that list Chipotle 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 2.3x more often with Chipotle Peppers than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Chipotle Peppers products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 82 | 13.1% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 16 | 2.5% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 8 | 1.3% | 2.4% |
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 Chipotle Peppers
Products Containing Chipotle Peppers
High-volume slice (16 of 628) for products naming Chipotle Peppers:
High-volume peers for Chipotle Peppers beside “Concentrated Grape Must”
Chipotle Peppers sits among other busy catalog rows (628 products, mean score 98.4/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Concentrated Grape Must · Milk Ingredients · Breadcrumbs. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Chipotle Peppers record
628 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Chipotle Peppers are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Chipotle Peppers to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Chipotle Peppers? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Chipotle Peppers, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#900 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Chipotle Peppers? ▼
Chipotle Peppers ranks in the top decile by product count (#900 of 247,206), appearing in 628 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Chipotle Peppers so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Chipotle Peppers appears in 628 products (#900 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Chipotle 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.