Cracked Pepper
Cracked Pepper appears in 36 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 Pepper appears in 36 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.
- 36
- catalogued products
- #6,225
- usage rank of 247,206
- 18
- named brands represented
- 62%
- 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 Pepper sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#6,225 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #6,225
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 114 others that also appear in exactly 36 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 36 products listing it (mean slot 9.8). Cracked 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Cracked Pepper spans 18 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Aged white cheddar alfredo; Anisa's Secrets, Steak Rub; Cracked Pepper And Garlic when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
18 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 17 of 33 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 Cracked Pepper
Products Containing Cracked Pepper
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 36 indexed products containing Cracked Pepper:
High-volume peers for Cracked Pepper
Cracked Pepper sits among other busy catalog rows (36 products, mean score 98.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Cracked Pepper record
Use the 36-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Cracked Pepper and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Cracked Pepper — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Cracked Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Cracked Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,225 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cracked Pepper? ▼
Cracked Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,225 of 247,206), appearing in 36 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cracked Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cracked Pepper appears in 36 products (#6,225 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cracked 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.