Crushed Red Pepper Flakes
Crushed Red Pepper Flakes appears in 43 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 Flakes appears in 43 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.
- 43
- catalogued products
- #5,507
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 87%
- 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 Flakes sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,507 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #5,507
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 87%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 43 products listing it (mean slot 17.4). Crushed Red Pepper Flakes usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Crushed Red Pepper Flakes spans 24 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Anisa's Secrets, Rosemary Lemon Pepper; Arrabbiata; ARRABBIATA when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
24 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 23 of 41 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 Crushed Red Pepper Flakes
Products Containing Crushed Red Pepper Flakes
16 busy labels from the 43 indexed products that list Crushed Red Pepper Flakes:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Top-decile company for Crushed Red Pepper Flakes: 43 listings averaging 99.3/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Crushed Red Pepper Flakes page
43 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Crushed Red Pepper Flakes are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Crushed Red Pepper Flakes before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
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 Crushed Red Pepper Flakes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Crushed Red Pepper Flakes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,507 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Crushed Red Pepper Flakes? ▼
Crushed Red Pepper Flakes ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Crushed Red Pepper Flakes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Crushed Red Pepper Flakes appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Crushed Red Pepper Flakes). 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.