Crushed Red Pepper
Crushed Red Pepper appears in 657 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
Crushed Red Pepper appears in 657 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.
- 657
- catalogued products
- #871
- usage rank of 247,206
- 281
- named brands represented
- 77%
- 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.
Crushed Red Pepper: top-decile catalog footprint (#871 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #871
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 77%
- Averaged label depth puts Crushed Red Pepper near the end of the captured list (77% of list length, mean slot 17.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 19.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Crushed Red Pepper spans 281 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 3 Beer, Thai Seasoning Rub; 365 everyday value, organic italian dressing; All Natural Honey Barbeque Sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
281 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 366 of 613 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 Crushed Red Pepper
Across the 657 products on this site that list Crushed Red 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.9x more often with Crushed Red Pepper than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Crushed Red Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 72 | 11% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 22 | 3.3% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 18 | 2.7% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 8 | 1.2% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 7 | 1.1% | 1.3% |
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 Crushed Red Pepper
Products Containing Crushed Red Pepper
High-volume slice (16 of 657) for products naming Crushed Red Pepper:
High-volume peers for Crushed Red Pepper beside “Brown Sugar Syrup”
High-volume peers for Crushed Red Pepper: 657 products, mean screening score 97.7/100. Nearest count peers include “Brown Sugar Syrup”, “Filling”, “Organic Palm Fruit Oil”. 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.
Using the Crushed Red Pepper evidence
Use the 657-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Crushed Red Pepper before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Crushed Red Pepper
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Crushed Red Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Crushed Red Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#871 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Crushed Red Pepper? ▼
Crushed Red Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#871 of 247,206), appearing in 657 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Crushed Red Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Crushed Red Pepper appears in 657 products (#871 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Crushed Red 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.