Cracked Black Pepper
Cracked Black Pepper appears in 123 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
Cracked Black Pepper appears in 123 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.
- 123
- catalogued products
- #2,727
- usage rank of 247,206
- 70
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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.
Cracked Black Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,727 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,727
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 13 others that also appear in exactly 123 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Averaged label depth puts Cracked Black Pepper in the lower half of the list (67% of list length, mean slot 12.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cracked Black Pepper spans 70 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with A.a. borsari, pepper seasoning peppercorn; Albacore wild tuna with lemon and thyme; Angus Roast Beef 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.
70 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 69 of 115 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 Cracked Black Pepper
Across the 123 products on this site that list Cracked Black 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cracked Black Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 6.5% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 4.9% | 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 Cracked Black Pepper
Products Containing Cracked Black Pepper
High-volume slice (16 of 123) for products naming Cracked Black Pepper:
Cracked Black Pepper vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Cracked Black Pepper: 123 products, mean screening score 98.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Bread Crumb”, “Clam Broth”, “Enriched Durum Semolina”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Cracked Black Pepper record
Use the 123-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Cracked Black Pepper and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Compare Cracked Black Pepper with a peer such as “Bread Crumb” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cracked Black Pepper
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cracked Black Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cracked Black Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,727 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cracked Black Pepper? ▼
Cracked Black Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,727 of 247,206), appearing in 123 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cracked Black Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cracked Black Pepper appears in 123 products (#2,727 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cracked Black 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.